...the net, nor yet the gracious purpose wherefore he is thus visited Not so the Christian, he bends low before his Father's displeasure. He feels the stroke,...Thus he can say with David, Before I was afflicted, 1 went astray; but now have I kept thy word. For this reason it is, that the afflictions and other...

...great in my own eyes. I am the unworthiest of the children of men. With David, I can say, 'Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word.' For these two months I have kept a diary, that in this mirror I might learn to know myself. I have plainly...

...thee, wherefore I abhor myself, and repent as in dust and ashes." Listen to the Psalmist — " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." And to Paul — " Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding...

...enabled to exclaim with the Psalmist, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted : for before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept Thy word." JA [The initials JA, attached to the above piece, will be found frequently repeated in the following...

..."Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law" (94:12). "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word" (119:67). "It is a good thing for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes" (119:71)....

...thy word. 66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments. 67 Before I ldren of Israel, that they should not go into the land whi 68 Thou art good, and doest good; teach me thy statutes. 69 The proud have forged a lie against me:...

...15:25; Job 33:1430; 36:8-15). "Blessed is the man whom thou chastisest, O Lord." Psalm 94:12 "Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word . . . it is good for me that I have been afflicted: that I might learn thy statutes." Psalm 119:67,71...

...delivereth him out of them all." (The reference is to Psalm 34: 19.)41 Citing Psalm 119:67 ("Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word"), the anonymous pamphleteer goes on to explain that, if God seems to deal harshly with his children,...

...Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law. (Psa. 94. 12): Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word. (Psa. 1 19. 67); For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee....

...preacher, and the first place I spoke at from home was Burton, near Barnsley. My text was: "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept Thy word." I tried to show them that God had gracious ends in afflicting His children, and dwelt particularly...