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" It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. "
The Monthly magazine - Page 168
by Monthly literary register - 1841
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The Fountain of Life Opened, Or, A Display of Christ in His Essential and ...

John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pages
...thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan, was sent to buffet me." 2 Cor. 12 : 7. So David, " Before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." Psalm 119 : 67. Afflictions are used by God, as thorns by husbandmen, to stop the gaps and keep you...
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The Christian institutes, or, The sincere word of God, a plain account of ...

Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...the World will learn Righteoufnefs : and in their Affliction they will feek him eaily. * It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy Statutes, O Lord; For before I was afflicted, I went aftray; but now I have kept thy Word. 1 Wherefore doth a...
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Sermons on several occasions, with a course of lectures on the ..., Volume 2

Richard Bundy - 1740 - 478 pages
...trou,* bled ; and very affectionately and gratefully cries out in the Words of the Text, It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy Statutes. So that thefe Words imply the Pfalmift's Senfe of the Benefits he had reaped from the Afflictions he...
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Brett's Miscellany: Being, a Collection of Divine, Moral, Historical, and ...

Peter Brett - 1748 - 260 pages
...Hands make whole. Pfalm cxfa:. 67, 71. Before I was affli&ed I went aftray, but now have I kept tby Word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy Statutes. I know, O Lord, that thy Judgments are juft : And that in Faithfulnefs, thou hath caufed me to be afflicted....
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The Life of Faith: Or, a Treatise of the Holy and Happy Life of Sincere ...

Richard Baxter - 1764 - 200 pages
...fo that they could fcarccly lock any other XVay. David fays, * Before I was afHicted I went aftray ; but now ' have I kept thy Word. It is good for me that I have been afflidied, that I might learn thy Statutes. O Lord, thou in Faithfulnefs haft afflidled me...
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Sermons on Practical Subjects: to which is Added, a Farewell ..., Volume 5

John WITHERSPOON (President of Princeton College.), William Shenstone - 1768 - 342 pages
...Before I was afflicted, I went a' dray; but now have I kept thy word: and, ver. • 71. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, ' that I might learn thy ftatutes.' And the apoftle Paul, Rom. v. 3. 'And not only fo, but we glory • in tribulations alfo,...
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The Whole Works: Of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel, ... In Eight ..., Volume 7

John Flavel - 1770 - 520 pages
...teacheth them ! Surely they reckon it an abundant recompense of all that they fuffer. " It is good for me that I have been afflicted, " that I might learn thy itatutes," Pfalm cxix. i \ . Yea, he refrefhes as well as teaches, and no cordials revive like his....
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Sermons on several subjects, publ. by B. Porteus and G. Stinton, Volume 6

Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1771 - 470 pages
...raife our Affections above earthly Objects. Before I was afflitted, faith the Pfalmift, / went aftray : but now have I kept thy Word. It is good for me that I have been affliSled, that I might learn thy Statutes p. No Chaftening Jor the prefent, faith the Apoftle,...
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Gospel Sonnets: Or, Spiritual Songs, in Six Parts ... Concerning Creation ...

Ralph Erskine - 1793 - 384 pages
...Pfalm cxix. 67. Before 1 was afflicted, 1 went aftray : but now have 1 kept thy word. v. "i. It is good for me that. I have been afflicted : that I might learn thy fiatutes. James i. 2. My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into divers: temptations. a Matth....
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Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One ..., Volume 10

Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 738 pages
...cxix. 67. Before I was afflicted, 1 went aftny : but now 1 have ' Itept thy word. Verle 71. It is fcojd for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy ftaiutes. James i. 2. My brethren, count it all joy, when ye fall iine divers temptations. 8 Matin,...
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