...alienating your affections from God and your fellow-men ? Can you say, with the pious psalmist, Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word 1 Or have you rather dealt proudly — despised reproof — sinned against judgments — and thus been...

...enabled to amend what had been hitherto amiss, and to advance in piety. As he says, ver. 67, " before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." There were errors and faults in his conduct, in the time of ease and prosperity, which afflictions...

...he says : " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." And then he adds, " Thou art good and doest good : teach me thy statutes." Thus acknowledging the goodness...

...alienating your affections from God and your fellow-men ? Can you say, with the pious psalmist, Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word ? Or have you rather dealt proudly — despised reproof- — sinned against judgments — and thus...

...more clearly and fully taught than this, in the sacred oracles. Thus the holy psalmist — " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word — It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes" — And thus, extensively,...

...In David's trial, and in its beneficial results, we see a verification of his own words : " Before 1 was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." Ps. cxix. <J7. We must not, however, infer ironi David's case, that ho who is afflicted the most has...

...more clearly and fully taught than this, in the sacred oracles. Thus the holy psalmist — " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word — It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes" — and thus, extensively,...

...be in want. How many, now living, can say, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted : before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word!" You had health: but sickness invaded your frame ; and you have been made to possess months of vanity,...

...Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me ; for before 1 was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept thy word. I therefore " At this statement, Mr. Sharpless grew so much irritated, that he warmly said, " Do let...

...and praised and honoured him that livethfor ever ; so David himself, Before, said he, Ps. 0xix.67. / was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. It is that whereby God doth prepare men, and doth entitle them to the blessed rewards hereafter : •...