...therefore frequent ? Could you not say with David, " How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O Lord, how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake I am still with thee." I remember thy holy and active zeal : — how you abounded in...

...remembrance, we should be surprised to see how their numbers would multiply, till we were ready to say — " If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand." 1 And truly such recollections would come up as a sweet savour to God "by Christ Jesus ; " 2 while...

...frequently notices this as the property of love to God. " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake I am still with thee. O God, thou art my God ; early will I seek thee ; my soul thirsteth...

...Jane. We cannot count them. Mamma. No ; and David says, " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand." Psalm cxxxix. 17, 18. Is it not wonderful that the great Being who has formed us loves us so tenderly,...

...he giveth his beloved sleep. — Psalm cxxvii. 1, 2. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee. — . cxxxix. 17, 18. Let my prayer be set forth before thee...

...bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches." — " How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God I how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee." Whatever the subject of your meditation may be, content not yourselves...

...suitable to serious thoughts of God. " How precious (says the Psalmist) are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sands : when I awake I am still with thee," Psal. cxxxix. 17, 18. These thoughts of God, of which the...

...meditation of him shall be sweet ; I will be glad in the Lord.' How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count (hem, they are more in number than Ihe sand ; when I a*ake. I am still with thee.« Yea, in the way...

...made ; marvellous are thy works ! How precious are thy wonderful contrivances in relation to me, O God ! How great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand." — This body, however, wonderful as its structure is, is liable to decay, and must soon be dissolved...

...precious are thy thoughts (or, thy wonderful contrivances) concerning me, О God! How great is Ihe sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand." To which may lie added the words of Job, " Thine hands have made ami fashioned me ; ihou hast clothed...