...Indeed.it is good for us, to keep us humble. The royal Psalmist found it so ; for he says, " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word"—" It is good for me to be afflicted," &c. Believers, therefore, welcome the cross, while they still keep the crown in view....

...sanctified affliction? Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word.—It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. (119 P. 67. 7l.) 8. .Are sorrow and sympathy truly beneficial? .. It is better to go to the house of...

...take away his sin." Isa. xxvii. 9. To the same purpose is that place in Psal. cxix. 67, " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." And here it may be asked, On what account afflictions are said to purge away the iniquities of the...

...thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge ; for I have believed thy commandments. 67 Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. • 68 Thou art good, and doest good: teach me thy statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against...

...12.) 7. Did the Psalmist rejoice in sanctified affliction ? Before I was afflicted I went us tray ; but now have I kept thy word. — It is good for me...have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. (119 P. 67, 71.) 8. Are sorrow and sympathy truly beneficial? It is better to go to the house of mourning,...

...and nineteenth Psalm, he immediately joined the choir in the seventy-first verse — .' It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes." We arrived at Pavia at ten o'clock, and after dining, called to deliver our letter of introduction...

...this present world.— Titus ii. 11, 12. 237 SERMON XXXIII. THIS LIFE A STATE OF PROBATION. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. — Psalm cix, 71. CiT SERMON XXXIV. THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONE ANOTHER IN A FUTURE STATE. Whom we preach,...

...peculiar pleasure.—To a friend she thus writes : " I hope I can say with the Psalmist, " it is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes." I have indeed been gently dealt with, fortho' I trust sin is daily more exceeding sinful in my eyes,...

...our God.' The* when the sickness has done its work he is able to say with the Psalmis*, ' Before I was afflicted I went astray : but now have I kept...afflicted ; that I might learn Thy statutes.' " And now, reader, you begin to comprehend my parable, and to see its drift. Are you in affliction, in sickness,...

...the saints nearer to God, and to make them more importunate and earnest in prayer with God. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept...have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes* I will be to Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I will tear, and...