 | Ralph Erskine - 1794 - 540 sidor
...our defection*. This is an evidence of our getting good by reproach, as David faid of affliction: " It is good for me that I was afflicted; before I was afflicted, I went aftray, but now I have kept thy word," Pfal. cxix. 67. And that reproach was a part of his affliction,... | |
 | William Giles - 1804 - 280 sidor
...may think of afflictions, the Christian has learned by experience how to. estimate their worth. He can say with the psalmist, ' it is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes — before I was afflicted I went astray.' He... | |
 | Lydia Wakeman - 1823 - 112 sidor
...spoke of it, during her illness, with peculiar pleasure.—To a friend she thus writes : " I hope I can say with the Psalmist, " it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." I have indeed been gently dealt with, fortho'... | |
 | 1826 - 938 sidor
...produces its designed effect, when in this furnace -j- the heart is purified, then can the true Christian say with the Psalmist, ** it is good for me that I...was afflicted." — " Before I was afflicted I went wrong ; but now have I kept thy law }..'' Reader ! art thou afflicted ? Be assured that God taketh... | |
 | 1827 - 566 sidor
...mother, " 1Г I should get over this sickness, I think I can say with the Psalmist: ' It is good Tor me that I was afflicted ; before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word.' " He one day requested his mother to read to him in the Bible ; and upon her inquiring... | |
 | 1828 - 122 sidor
...produces its designed effect, when in this furnace • the heart is purified, then can the true Christian say with the Psalmist, " it is good for me that I...was afflicted." — " Before I was afflicted I went wrong ; but now have I kept thy law'." Reader! art thou afflicted? Be assured that God taketh no pleasure... | |
 | Piety - 1829 - 454 sidor
...to poor sinners, that Jesus Christ came into the world to save the chiefest:" adding, " it is well for me that I was afflicted: before I was afflicted I went astray." Inquiring where that portion of Scripture is, which says, " Where the wicked cease from troubling,... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 512 sidor
...occasion for any complaint on his behalf. One good man saw this and confessed it in his own case, ' It is good for me that I was afflicted : before I was in trouble I went astray.' Even good men in this life want sometimes admonitions to awaken their care,... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 512 sidor
...occasion for any complaint on his behalf. One good man saw this and confessed it in his own case, ' It is good for me that I was afflicted : before I was in trouble I went astray.' Even good men in this life want sometimes admonitions to awaken their care,... | |
 | Benjamin Braidley - 1831 - 204 sidor
...thou hast seen fit to afflict me, to bring me to know the truth, the way, and thy saving knowledge. I can say with the Psalmist, ' it is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes.' " " November 23rd. 1821. I thank the Lord that... | |
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It is good for me that I was afflicted : before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word. 
