 | Benjamin Jenks - 1819 - 344 pages
...attain to be sucii as thy holy word requires we should be, in all holy conversation and godliness. Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. O dear Lord, increase our love to thy word, which the angels desire to look into, and make our souls... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1820 - 358 pages
...be justified. SERMON VIII. OF THE INWARD PEACE AND PLEASURE WHICH ATTENDS RELIGION. PSALM cxix. 165. Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. MY design at present is, To recommend religion from that inward peace and pleasure which attend it?... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 pages
...righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." — " Great peace," said one who knew it by experience, " great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them ;" even " the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep their hearts and minds through... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...affords them a just and solid ground to rejoice, which all the world cannot take away. David says, "Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them," or destroy their peace, And it was a proverb in Israel, " The backslider in heart shall be filled with... | |
 | 1832 - 590 pages
...Scriptures represent obedience to God as alTordinjr peculiar satisfaction, to the soul. The Psalmist says, " Great peace have they that love thy law and nothing shall offend them." Solomon says, " A goad man shall be satisfied from himself." And again he says, " The ways of wisdom... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pages
...revive and rise again in glory and splendour ; and the words of the Psalmist, too, came into my mind, " Great peace have they that love Thy law, and nothing shall offend them." Reader, have you, amid the restlessness and worries, and deep cares and anxieties of life, have you... | |
 | Abigail Eames - 1826 - 74 pages
...its transitory joys ; and as if I could bid them all adieu that I might be with Christ above. 0 Lord, great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them ! If I know my own heart I love thee ; I love thy people and thy cause, and choose rather to suffer affliction... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 518 pages
...spirit, and disconsolations, are we secured by this peace. So the psalmist assures us, Psal. cxix. 165. ' Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them.' The law, or the word of God, is the only way of the revelation of God and his will unto us, and the... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...29, " Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." So the word seems to be taken, Ps. cxix. 65, " Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them." Prov. iii. 17, It k» said of wisdom or religion : " Her ways VOL. ix. i 2 c are ways of pleasantness,... | |
 | John Owen - 1828 - 284 pages
...noxious influence on our minds from these things we are secured by this peace. Psalm cxix. 165 : " Great peace have they that love thy law, and nothing shall offend them." To love the law or word of God, is the chief part of our being heavenly minded ; yea, virtually it... | |
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O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes : great peace have they that love thy law. and nothing shall offend them. 
