...statutes'. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise, and with thy honour all the day '. I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue,...mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me'. All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips shall not speak...

...Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation, PSALM XXXIX. I SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that 1 sin not with my tongue ; I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence : I held my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart...

...danger formidable enough to induce us to say, I am purposed, that my mouth shall not transgress : I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. The catalogue of sins is not completed. Impurity and profaneness are not far behind. The first, indeed,...

...tongue kecpeth his soul from troubles. (21 Pr. 23.) 3. What was the Psalmist's resolution 1 I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle. (39 Ps. 1.) 4. Does God know every word we utter ? There is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord,...

...and slandering. Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Ps. xxxiv, 13. I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my month with a hridle. Ps. xxxix, 1. Set a wateh, O Lord, hefore my month; keep the door of my lips....

...dignity, and gracious recompenses ; but, simply, to the presence of a jealous and malignant world : " I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." There may be here a reference to the flourishing state of certain transgressors, in contrast to sorrows...

...Hence the amazing force of certain texts, which are often too hastily recited : — " I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue." " If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man." Birds of the air, serpents, and the wildest...

...used at the burial of the dead, as a funeral is indeed the best comment upon it.] 1. ' I said, I will take heed. to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue...mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.' Div. No. XXII. T . The Psalm begins abruptly with the result of a meditation on the narrow, slippery,...

...tongue, keepeth his soul from troubles. (21 Pr. 23.) 3. What was the Psalmist's resolution .' I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle. (39 Ps. 1.) 4. Docs God know every word me utter ? There is not a word in my tongue, but lo, O Lord,...

...for their wilful acts of impiety. The language of every christian should be that of the Psalmist, " I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me." C. But do you imagine there is any thing wrong in visiting with our friends who are not hopefully pious,...