 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pages
...sovereign hand, which holds your souls, bodies, and all your comforts ; how quiet would your hearts be ! "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." Ps. 39 : 9. " It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good." 1 Sam. 3 : 18. Oh, when we have to... | |
 | William Huntington - 1802 - 522 pages
...consideration and belief of this struck holy David dumb before God when under the afflicting rod of God? " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it," Psalm xxxix. 9. As hath been already observed, there is neither good nor evil that can fall out without... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 738 pages
...case, to say it is well, — because God doth it. This passed for an unanswerable reason with David, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it I, and with good old Eli, under a severer trial than ours, // is the Lord, let him do as seemeth good... | |
 | Louis de MAROLLES, John Martin - 1803 - 248 pages
...former expresses himself thus: It is the Lord ; let him do what seemeth him good : and, the latter said, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. Both of them were exposed to great afflictions; both of them •were oppressed with a sense of their... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805 - 544 pages
...there can be no patience. Consider it as the hand of God, and thence argue the soul into submission™. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. But this heaviness is mitigated, and set. as it were within its banks, betwixt these two considerations,... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...i. 21. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Psal. xxix. 9. I was dumb I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it, Psal. cxix. 75. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right ; and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 428 pages
...expressed in those pious sentiments of ancient good men : * Ecclcs. xi. 8. I was On Patience* SERMON I was dumb ; I opened not .my mouth, because ' • thou didst It. It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth good in his eyes. Shall 'we receive good at the hand of the... | |
 | 1809 - 556 pages
...their laughing-stock, nor mock at my reliance on thee, and patient submission to thee. •' ' Ver. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth : because thou didst it.\ For I did not complain, but silently endured their insolent and scurrilous language, together with... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 pages
...hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 sed 10 Remove thy stroke away from me : I »m consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pages
...was able to say unto God in the sincerity of his heart, after he had gone through the fiery trial, "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it." While Paul was returning from a long journey to Jerusalem, a certain prophet named Agabus forewarned... | |
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I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; Because thou didst it Remove thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of thine hand. 
