...their laughing-stock, nor mock at my reliance on thee, and patient submission to thee. •' ' Ver. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth : because thou didst it.\ For I did not complain, but silently endured their insolent and scurrilous language, together with...

...remembrance, and is humbled, or bowed down in me.' So David, when he was under the rod, could say, ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it.' I have read of one, who when any thing fell out prosperously, would read over the lamentation of Jeremiah,...

...was able to say unto God in the sincerity of his heart, after he had gone through the fiery trial, "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it." While Paul was returning from a long journey to Jerusalem, a certain prophet named Agabus forewarned...

...i» his trial. And while he beheld the hand of God afflicting him, he was filled with submission. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." In this conduct of David under his trials, we havemarked out our duty in similar eireumstanees. It...

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

...what wilt thou have me to do ?" David wraps himself up in the stillness of patience and submission : " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou " didst it." There stands old Eli ; he has received the most distressing intelligence, and piously exclaims " it...

...just in all that i« brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Nek. 9. 33- I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by tbe blow of thine hand. P,s. 3P. 9, 10. I will bear...

...for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth : surely every man is vanity. Sclah. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, sit ye here,...

...we live, and move, and have our being, we shall meekly say with respect to all his appointments, ' I was dumb ; I opened not my mouth because Thou didst it !' This, -however, I own, is a thought to silence, rather than comfort us. It is not till we can see...

...whensoever he pleases; all wise and good men still saying in such cases with the pious Psalmist, xxxix. 9. / was dumb, I opened not my mouth., because thou didst it ; and with patient Job, i. 21. ii. 40. Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall not we receive evil ? The Lord gave, and the...