 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.  Life of Sir Henry Lawrence - Page 109by Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes, Herman Merivale - 1872 - 627 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 466 pages
...the winds and storms ; by whom all things were made, and are upheld, by his word and power. Heb. i. ' the law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' Psa. cxix. 71. GF Swarthmore in Lancashire, the 28th of the 8th month, 1676. Concerning how the World... | |
 | Archibald Hall - Faith - 1831 - 472 pages
...of his commandments there is great reward ; his ways are pleasantness, and his paths are peace; and the law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." Adam was created the natural root of a very numerous posterity, who were, in successive generations,... | |
 | John Hambleton - 1833 - 220 pages
...delight and my counsellors." 2 " I 102 will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved." l " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." 2 " O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day." 3 u I hate vain thoughts : but thy law... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1833 - 322 pages
...words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a. furnace of earth, purified seven times. 12 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. 13 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. 14 I have seen an end... | |
 | Stephen Higginson Tyng - 1833 - 284 pages
...language of the Psalmist — "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes ; that I be not ashamed. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1833 - 404 pages
...calculated to convey to the soul. " O how I love thy law !" says David, " it is my meditation all the day. The law of thy mouth is better unto me, than thousands of gold an^ silver. I have rejoiced in thy testimonies as much as in alJ riches." The moral maxims contained... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1834 - 590 pages
...say with l)avid, " How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth." "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." For blessed are they who walk in the law of the Lord, who keep his testimonies, and who seek him with... | |
 | Charles Bridges - Bible - 1834 - 528 pages
...tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." 3 72. The lav) of thy mouth is better unto me, than thousands of gold and silver. WELL might David acknowledge the benefit of affliction, inasmuch as it had been the means of his "... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - Sermons, English - 1836 - 608 pages
...Job says, " 1 have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food ;" and, says David, " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver; more to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much tine gold ; yea, sweeter also than honey, and... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Society of Friends - 1836 - 414 pages
...accordingly ; I feel the necessity of " searching them as for hidden treasures ;" I say of them, " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver," — " O how love I thy law ! It is my meditation all the day." But if I once admit the conception,... | |
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