| Sarah Martin - 1799 - 152 pages
...night. " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste : " " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver," are the texts which form the motto of her Scripture Book. When books of a devotional character have... | |
| 1803 - 490 pages
...For thus we find in the book of Psalms, from the hands of David the King of Israel, (Ps. cxix. 72.) The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. For in the hour of a man's departing this life, there attendeth not upon the man, either silver or... | |
| Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...Job xxiii. 12. 1 have esteemed the words of his mouth, more than my necessary food. Psal cxix. 72. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of. gold and silver. 2. In our earnest dt-sires after the word, Psal cxix. 20, 131. My soul breaketh for the longing that... | |
| Samuel Miller, Princeton Theological Seminary - 1812 - 128 pages
...to be desired, than gold, yea, than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey and the honey comb.' ' The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' ' Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage.' How delightful must it be to sit as... | |
| Samuel Miller, Princeton Theological Seminary - 1812 - 134 pages
...to be desired, than gold, yea, than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey and the honey comb.' ' The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' ' Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage.' How delightful must it be to sit as... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pages
...xxiii. 12. ' I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.' Psal. cxix. 72. ' The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' (2.) A love of desire after it, 1 Pet. ii. 2. 'As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word,... | |
| 1847 - 760 pages
...of my life : " Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage ;" "How I love thy law;" "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." It is the code of heaven, and cordially obeyed by the children of men it would create heaven upon earth.... | |
| Samuel Whitman - 1814 - 390 pages
...thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than the honey to my mouth. I luve thy COMMANDMENTS above gold. The LAW of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." The reason why the Psalmist had such a peculiar regard for the dtvine laie, we learn from the nineteenth... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pages
...taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." He gives the reasons of his high estimation of the word of God in the 19th Psalm. "The law of the Lord... | |
| 1815 - 614 pages
...delight in thy law. 71 It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. JOD. 73 Thy hands have made me and fashioned me : give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.... | |
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