...communion with God, than in days and months of sinful indulgence. We can say with David, ': A day in thy courts is better than a thousand ; I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness." A good hope through grace, a knowledge...

...longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God."- — " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness §." If these were the feelings and desires...

...give ear, O GoJ of Jacob." Look with pity on the darkness of my soul, now banished from thy house; " for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be only a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell" in state and splendour " in the teats of...

...blessedness of the upper world. Those words hung upon me, with much divine sweetness, Psal. Ixxxiv. 7. They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appearclh before God. O the near access that God sometimes gives us in our addresses to him ! This...

...tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts ! Blessed are they that dwell in thy house ; they will be still praising thee. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Ps. xxvii. 4. xxxiv. 4. 11. Here it...

...the expectation of that blessing, which they shall be partakers of in that holy mountain. LXXXIV. 7 They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. And therefore they go on, cheerfully gathering strength and coorage, in the way, until they come into...

...Blessed is the man in whose heart are the ways of them, who, passing through the valley of Baca....go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God." Ter. 10. "A day in thy courts is better than a thousand." This is the nature of tmiS grace. But yet,...

...Blessed is the man in whose heart are the ways of them, who, passing through the valley of Baca....go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God." ver. 10. " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand." This is the nature of true grace. But yet,...

...sometimes has in God, he prefers far before all the pleasures of sin, Psalm Ixxxiv. 10. " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." A saint thus prefers God before all things...

...in their own minds. He expresses the highest regard for the worship of God, when he says, " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand: I had rather be a door-keeper," or I had rather sit. upon the door threshold, I had rather sit in the lowest' place, or be employed...