...disappointment of seeking happiness in them. MEM. 97 O how love I thy Ipw ! it [is] my meditation all the dar. 98 Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies, though they are very crafty : for they [are] evtr with me ; continually in my eye, thoughts and heart...

...religion. Open than mine eyes said the prophet formerly, that I may behold zvondrous things out of thy law. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. Thy words are as a lamp unt* my feet, and a light unto my path. Mine eyes prevent the night watches,...

...his knowledge as eminently great, and far greater than that of other saints, Psal. cxix. 99, 109. « I have more understanding than all my teachers: For thy testimonies are my meditation : I understand more than the ancients : Because I keep thy precepts." To this I answer two things :...

...thou art, or mayest be, in thy God. Consider what the man after God's own heart sticks not to profess: Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies -,for thou art ever ttith me; Ps. cxix. 98. Lo, the Spirit of Wisdom (Deut. xxxiv. 9. Eph. i. IT.) is ours:...

...Psalmist warmly recommends this way of see ing knowledge in divinity, from his own experience, Psal. c*ix. 100. " I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts." Christ also recommends the same, John \i\. 17. " If any man will do his will, he shall know of the...

...broad. LORL>, what love have I unto thy law! all the day long is my study in it. Quomodo dilexi! 2 Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies; for they are ever with me. 7 Thy testimonies have I claimed as mine heritage for ever; and why? they are the very joy of my heart....

...wisdom capable of confounding and instructing the learned and the aged, according to the psalmist,*—" I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation. / understand more than the ancients; because I keep thy precepts."—He was consequently a competent...

...bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness." Sometimes she speaks in the light: "I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation." Sometimes faith speaks from the frontiers of heaven, and sometimes from the depths of hell: " Although...

...to man." If the Lord shines on his word I can say with the Psalmist, " In thy light we see light;" " I have more understanding than all my teachers; for thy testimonies are my meditation," Psalm cxix. 99. But if he hide his face I am troubled, and ready to cry out, " I am a stranger in the...

...his knowledge ns eminently gre.it, and f.xr greater than that of other saints, Psal. cxix. 99, 100. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients: because I keep thy precepts. 'To this I answer two things: God,...