...above ;" — ' It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might learn Thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word.' Happy, thrice happy Christian, thus to be taught of God : thus threading, as it were, the mazes of...

...High, and praised and honored him that liveth for ever ;' so David himself, ' Before,' said he, ' I 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: ' Our light...

...every review, " it is good for me that 1 have been at dieted, that I might learn thy statutes. Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." To conclude. There is no subject under which we cannot teach and preach Jesus Christ How is it that...

...but the true Christian has reason to say, with cheerful resignation, and devout gratitude, " before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." But I must proceed with my narrative. I visited her frequently before she died; and uniformly found...

...DAY 23. O teach me true understanding and knowledge ; for I have believed thy commandments. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word. Thou art good and doest good ; O teach me thy statutes. The proud have forged a lie against me ; but...

...for heaven. You remember what troubles pious David had, and "What he said respecting them. " Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." The Pilgrims thought all these trials were sent for their good, and therefore were not discouraged....

...visitations ; " It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes ; " " before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." And if so holy and pious a man as David, (though he once greatly fell,) found affliction to be necessary...

...robbed the vine ? Can you say with David, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word" — Has the Lord forgotten to be gracious to you ? Fourthly, he does it by discovery. " The word of...

...the Most High rules. In view of the trials incident to life, we hear the Psalmist exclaim "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." This seems to be the lamentable condition of man. When rolling in the calm tide of uninterrupted* prosperity,...

...therefore, and washed, and came seeing. John ix. 6, 7. And they followed him.] See ehap. viii. 15. Before I ft. cxix. 67. The law of thy mouth it better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Ps. cxix. 72....