...exercised by such peculiar trials, might enable us to say, in a humble and resigned temper of mind, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it." it is not the hand of an enemy that hath done it, it is the hand of One " who knoweth our frame and...

...and to turn the flowmg stream into the channel of repentance " Be still, and know that I am God."—" I was dumb : I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." "Why should a living man complain a man, for the pumshment of his sins ?" If smllin? mercy crown our...

...old Eli, ' It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good ;' to say on all occasions with David; 'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.' On this consideration we should not only be satisfied with, and acquiesce in, but praise and adore...

...old Eli, ' It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good ;' to say on all occasions with David; 'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.' On this consideration we should not only be satisfied with, and acquiesce in, but praise and adore...

...dispensations, thy will be done!" Happy is he who, like David, can look back upon chastisements and say, "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." Psal. xxxix. " Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in...

...feelings, our language, and our conduct, be those of the Psalmist, as expressed in the words of our text, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." 3. In the third place, we should be resigned to the will of God when he afflicts us, because affliction...

...ignorant of his designs, we may safely confide in Him who does and will direct all contingencies. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it," is the language of humble and submissive confidence. While nature weeps, the Christian remembers that...

...be'lP^atience. Consider it as the hand of God, and thence argue the soul into submission, Psal. xxxix. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. But this heaviness is mitigated, and set, as it were, within its banks, betwixt these two considerations,...

...frequently complaineth of them in the Psalms, as one of the bitter ingredients of his own cup. " 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." Whatever materials compose the rod of affliction, and from whatsoever quarter the stroke cometh, let...

...his infancy, had so often constituted his burden. The posture of my soul was nowlike that of David. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." How consoling the reflection, that under such rebukes nature may have leave to speak in tears, since...