| Mary Jane Graham, Charles Bridges - 1834 - 356 Seiten
...drawing water out of the wells of salvation;"tt and we are then constrained to cry out with Jeremiah — "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the jov and rejoicing of mine heart."|| I fear that I have already taken too much time upon this; but it... | |
| Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1853 - 274 Seiten
...which he felt and anticipated at the beginning of his ministry. " Thy words were found, and I did cat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." But these bright anticipations were clouded by the messages of wrath which Jeremiah was constrained... | |
| John Howe - 1835 - 662 Seiten
...then extant ; and was sweeter to him than honey to his taste, ver. 103. Thy words (saith Jeremiah) were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto...me the joy and rejoicing of my heart, Jer. xv. 16. The •word of God is then like to be done, when there is so dear a love to it ; and the soul so taketh... | |
| Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - 1835 - 740 Seiten
...mouth as more than my necessary food." " I rejoice at thy word, as those that find great spoil." " Thy words were found and I did eat them ; and thy...word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." His preference of divine truth is decided ; " I have chosen the way of truth." He earnestly desires... | |
| John Barclay - 1835 - 382 Seiten
...; indeed, it was with them, in their measure, as it was with the Prophet Jeremiah, where he says, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." It is evident, they received it "not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God," so... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1835 - 764 Seiten
...gone to the house of God sorrowing, and come away exulting. " Thy words," says the prophet Jeremiah, " were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." (2.) By their private counsels and instructions. As a cheerful frame of spirit is both pleasing and... | |
| 1835 - 664 Seiten
...according to his heart, who should feed them with knowledge and understanding." " And," says the prophet, " thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." That therefore this word may dwell richly in us, we should make full meals of it, we should... | |
| Robert Boyle - 1835 - 346 Seiten
...but that in most ages some pious persons have been able to say truly to God, in Jeremiah's terms, ' Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was to me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart :'* and if the persons I mention have been but few, I can... | |
| Edward Stallybrass - 1836 - 318 Seiten
...With an 'Ebenezer' to thegrace of God, I desire to close it. Surely, with the prophet I may say, ' Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy...word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart.' Never were words more calculated to console a mind oppressed with a sense of its own weakness, than... | |
| 1838 - 900 Seiten
...persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 onth Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son o mine heart : for "I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the... | |
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