 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 páginas
...commandment, 1 conceive is meant, the whole moral law. In this extensive sense the word is used, Psal. cxix. 96, " I have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad." Prov. vi. 23, " The commandment is a lamp, and the law is light." Rom. vii. 9, " I was alive without... | |
 | William Huntington - 1804 - 606 páginas
...commandments. And what was his success? Just the same as that of every other workman at this perfect rule ; " I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad," Psalm cxix. 96. He found it required perfection, and that perfection was not in him. The commandment... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 506 páginas
...thy precepts. The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : S6 [but] I will consider thy testimonies. I have seen an end of all perfection : [but] thy commandment [is] exceeding broad. REFLECTION. • The history of David is an admirable paraphrase on the former' part of these verses^... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1806 - 468 páginas
...is thy wisdom ; mind thy duty, and refer to him thy comfort. SE 11 MON XXI. ' PSAL. cxix. £)6'. / have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad. GRACE is a divine light in the soul, and shews the true colours of things. The Apostle overshoots not,... | |
 | Joseph Hall - 1808 - 568 páginas
...deformed and wrinkled, with sorrow ; even as a bottle, that- is hanged up in the smoke. CXIX. 96 / have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding large. There is no earthly thing, be it never so excellent, but I have observed it subject to change... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 574 páginas
...that I can scarce hold open mine eyes any longer. CXIX. 82 Mine eyes fail for thy word. CXIX. 96 / have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding large. CXIX. 83 I am become like a bottle in the smoke. I am dried up, and shrunk, and deformed and... | |
 | 1809 - 1150 páginas
...thy precepts. 95 The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies. bread. MEM. 97 O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. 98 Thou through thy commandments... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 páginas
...conformable to the image of God, till we arrive at the perfection proposed to us in a life to come. I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad," saith David, Psalm cxix. 96. No visible things are so perfect, that they are eternal and incorruptible... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 páginas
...the fulfilling of the law," the whole ten commandments; and this the apostle takes from the Psalms; " I have seen an end of all perfection, but thy commandment is exceeding broad," Psalm cxix.96. From hence Paul takes it; and David says, it is the commandment, and it is exceeding... | |
 | William Huntington - 1812 - 402 páginas
...encouragement that it gives to the poor sinner. It was in the Lord's light that David saw this : " I have seen an end of all perfection ; but thy commandment is exceeding broad." In this light we see this world in its true colours, and the state of all men in it; " We kno\v that... | |
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The wicked have waited for me to destroy me : but I will consider thy testimonies. 96 I have seen an end of all perfection : but thy commandment is exceeding broad. 
