...submission under sufferings the most acute, nnd that entire acquiescense in the sovereign will of God : ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it,' ixxi^.9. Witness that supernatural detachment from the world, which enables him to resign, without...

...afflicted children can hush to silence the rising murmur of the soul, and adopt the Psalmist's language, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." Psalm xxxix. 6. They have in the prophets, " an example of suffering affliction and of patience ; "...

...that be of men. I 1 SAM. iii. 18 : Tt is the LORD : let him do what seemeth him good. Ps. xxxix. 9 : I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. MAT. ri. 10 : Thy will be done in k ACTS, xx. 24. 16 There went with us also certain of the disciples...

...hand upon my mouth: once have I spoken, but I will not answer, &c. — Job xl. 1 — 5. xlii. 3 — 6. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it. — Pa. xxix. 9. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction...

...beloved fellow.pilgrim to Jerusalem. But the blow is from the hand of an allwise and all-gracious Father. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. We have cause to praise him that our brother was spared to be so long useful, and that his dying hours...

...described by the ancient Hebrew prophets. "I was dumb with silence, I held my peace even from good," said David, when he had been suffering under the chastisement of the Lord,— " / was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it;" Ps. xxxix. 2,9. "Why do we sit still?"...

...Lord, lei him do what seemelh him good." I S.im. FII. 18. The Psalmist, referring to his trials, said, "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." Pa. XXXIX. 9. But above all, the example of the Saviour is worthy of notice. When in greatdistress,...

...a weaned child before thee." In prayer we plead for the grace of submission : the Psalmist says, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it." In prayer we ask for fixedness of strength, for the spirit of love and obedience: the Psalmist exclaims...

...hope is in thee. 8 Deliverme from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of thy hand. 11 When thou with rebukes...

...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...