 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 páginas
...thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, was sent to buffet me." 2 Cor. 12 : 7. So David, " Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." Psalm 119 : 67. Afflictions are used by God, as thorns by husbandmen, to stop the gaps and keep you... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 páginas
...the World will learn Righteoufnefs : and in their Affliction they will feek him eaily. * It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy Statutes, O Lord; For before I was afflicted, I went aftray; but now I have kept thy Word. 1 Wherefore doth a... | |
 | Richard Bundy - 1740 - 478 páginas
...trou,* bled ; and very affectionately and gratefully cries out in the Words of the Text, It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy Statutes. So that thefe Words imply the Pfalmift's Senfe of the Benefits he had reaped from the Afflictions he... | |
 | 1893 - 386 páginas
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 | Peter Brett - 1748 - 260 páginas
...Hands make whole. Pfalm cxfa:. 67, 71. Before I was affli&ed I went aftray, but now have I kept tby Word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy Statutes. I know, O Lord, that thy Judgments are juft : And that in Faithfulnefs, thou hath caufed me to be afflicted.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1758 - 466 páginas
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 | Richard Baxter - 1764 - 200 páginas
...fo that they could fcarccly lock any other XVay. David fays, * Before I was afHicted I went aftray ; but now ' have I kept thy Word. It is good for me that I have been afflidied, that I might learn thy Statutes. O Lord, thou in Faithfulnefs haft afflidled me... | |
 | John WITHERSPOON (President of Princeton College.), William Shenstone - 1768 - 342 páginas
...Before I was afflicted, I went a' dray; but now have I kept thy word: and, ver. • 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, ' that I might learn thy ftatutes.' And the apoftle Paul, Rom. v. 3. 'And not only fo, but we glory • in tribulations alfo,... | |
 | John Flavel - 1770 - 520 páginas
...teacheth them ! Surely they reckon it an abundant recompense of all that they fuffer. " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, " that I might learn thy itatutes," Pfalm cxix. i \ . Yea, he refrefhes as well as teaches, and no cordials revive like his.... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1771 - 470 páginas
...raife our Affections above earthly Objects. Before I was afflitted, faith the Pfalmift, / went aftray : but now have I kept thy Word. It is good for me that I have been affliSled, that I might learn thy Statutes p. No Chaftening Jor the prefent, faith the Apoftle,... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 
