| Samuel Rutherford, Thomas Erskine - 1827 - 394 sidor
...should slay me ten thousand times ten thousand times, I'll trust." He often repeated, " ' Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.' " Exhorting one to be diligent in seeking God, he said, " It is no easy thing to be a Christian,... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 688 sidor
...unto you : for "him hath God the Father sealed. b work not. AV m Ver. 54, 58. JER. xv. 16: Thy words were found, and I did eat them: and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LOKD God of hosts. MAT. vi. 19, 20 : Lay not up for yourselves... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1827 - 438 sidor
...; take me not away in thy long-suffaring : know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart : for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts. I sat not in the assembly of the mockers,... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 732 sidor
...Jeremiah b expresses his spiritual joy, and the aense of this mystery : *< Thy words were found and J did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and ' Moreh Nevoch. lib. ic 30. ' EeduS. xv. 3. " Isaiah, Iv. 1, 2. * Matt. v. 6. y Amos, viii. 11. ' Isaiab,... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1828 - 714 sidor
...Jeremiah b expresses his spiritual joy, and the sense of this mystery : "• Thy words were found and J did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and ' Moreh Nevoch. lib. ic 30. ' Ecelus. xv. 3. v Isaiah, Iv. I, 2. ' Matt. v. 6. J Amos, viii. 11. '... | |
| 1829 - 592 sidor
...period, and under his long affliction it was his best comforter. He could say with Jeremiah, Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. It was his constant practice, whenever it was read in the family circle, to ofiier an ejaculatory... | |
| Philip Allwood - 1829 - 538 sidor
...food and nourishment to the mind. Thus, Jeremiah pathetically pleads, in prayer to GOD,—" Thy words were found, and " I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the " joy and rejoicing of my heart y :" and Ezekiel expressly declares, that he was commanded to " eat the roll" of his prophecy... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1829 - 378 sidor
...know with what relish the saints of old spake of it. — " Thy words were found," says the Prophet, " and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." " Thy statutes," says the Psalmist, " are more to be desired than gold, yea, than much... | |
| Thomas Watson - 1830 - 154 sidor
...gracious heart loves every thing that hath the stamp of God upon it. The word is his delight—" Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart," Jer. xv. 16. The Sabbath is his delight—" Jf thou turn away thy foot from doing thy pleasure... | |
| Morning watch - 1830 - 814 sidor
...word of God to the nourishment and exhilaration which food affords to the exhausted body : " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." — There is great beauty and propriety in the three series of the Apocalypse being addressed... | |
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