...unswept corners of our own hearts ; being far from the state of the Prophet, who says, " Thy words were found and I did eat them, and Thy Word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." We eat the Word of God when we live by it. In the Sermon on the Mount, we are told that " Blessed...

...will of our heavenly Father, it is our highest enjoyment, and, as Jeremiah, we can say, " Thy words were found and I did eat them, and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." To know by happy experience that we shall go to heaven becanse heaven is come to us, is...

...take me not away in thy longsuffering : know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. 17 [ sat not in the assembly of the mockers,...

...ofGod. You know with what relish the saints of old «pake of it. Thy rvordswere found, says the Prophet, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine Jiearl (1). Thy statutes, says the Psalmist, are more to be desired than gold, yeai than much...

...cordial, administering the richest consolation. " I had fainted unless I had believed." " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." — Divine ordinances are wisely adapted to the same end. The Lord's Supper is a feast,...

...slay me ten thousand times ten thousand times, I'll trust. He often repeated, Jer. xv. 16. ' Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." Exhorting one to be diligent in seeking God, he said, Tis no easy thing to be a Christian,...

...take me not away in thy long-suffering : know that for thy sake 1 have suffered rebuke. 16 Thy words 13- lather and thy mother, , as the LORD thy God hath commanded . [hee; that thy days mine heart : for I am ' called by thy name, О LORD God of hosts. 17 I sat not in the assembly of the...

...to this locality, he found a people "prepared of the Lord;" many of whom could truly say, "Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart." Two other visits were paid by Mr. Wesley to Osmotherly in the year 1 745 ; one in the month...

...pleasure the mind of man is capable of in this world. " Thy words were found of me," says Jeremiah, " and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto .me the joy and rejoicing of my heart," Jer. xv. 16; as pleasant food to a famishing man ; for now conscience is quieted, comforted,...

...Thus the prophet Jeremiahi' expresses his spiritual joy, and the sense of this mystery: " Thy words were found and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and • Moreh Nevoch. lib. ic SO. ' Eechu. xv. 3. v Isaiah, Iv. l, a. * Matt. v. 6. > Amos.viii.lt. * Itawh,...