| Bible - 1838 - 900 pages
...persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 onth Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the...word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah : for "I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor... | |
| Edward Stallybrass - Missionaries - 1836 - 318 pages
...With an 'Ebenezer' to thegrace of God, I desire to close it. Surely, with the prophet I may say, ' Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.' Never were words more calculated to console a mind oppressed with a sense of its own weakness,... | |
| Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 608 pages
...honey, and the honey-comb ;" as David declares from his experience, Psal. six. : and, Jer. xv. 16 : " Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." (5.) There is the private window of personal or family fasting and humiliation, which has... | |
| Joseph Hall - Bishops - 1837 - 600 pages
...thy long-suffering, and p atienco, bears with them, I, in the mean ttme, be murdered by them. 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 LORD God of hosts. So soon as thy words were delivered to mo, I did... | |
| John Warburton - 1837 - 154 pages
...grapes, which my soul could eat and digest. O how precious did I find the language of the prophet, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of iny heart." I had now everything that my heart desired; plenty of provisions, a comfortable house,... | |
| Henry Jones - Bible - 1837 - 164 pages
...sweetness in it? And could she not then adopt, with sincerity, the inspired forms of her devotions ? " Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. "f "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether ; more to be desired are... | |
| Joseph Samuel Christian Frederick Frey - 1837 - 422 pages
...read the sacred Scriptures, that, with our dying breath, we may be able to say with the prophet ; " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." Jer. 15 : 16. Letter VI. THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS STATED. The faith of... | |
| Church of England preacher - 1837 - 632 pages
...upon which he did not fear to pass through even the valley of the shadow of death. Jeremiah says, " Thy words were found and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." " Oh !" said the Psalmist, " oh ! how I love thy law !" And you ought to love this word,... | |
| Fruits - 1838 - 164 pages
...God's spirit. This then, applies also to yourself. Again, the child of God delights in his holy word, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart.'' You know dearest that you have experienced this. How often have you gone to your Bible as to a friend,... | |
| 1838 - 492 pages
...him positively as to his dispositions towards the law of God, ver. 2. Like Jeremiah, he can say, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart;" and like Paul, he delights " in it after the inner man." Amidst all the cares, and duties, and dangers... | |
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