| Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1806 - 468 pages
...really no accession of gain to him by our services, yet he is pleased so to account with us as if there were. Therefore we may urge this : " Lord give more,...obtaining it. The resolution occurs first in the words. I will run, &c.] The way resolved on is that of God's commandments, not the road of the polluted world,... | |
| 1809 - 1150 pages
...have I laid before me. 31 I nave stuck unto thy testimonies: O LORD, put me not to shame. 32 I wiu people ; and will give thjs land to thy" seed after thee, ./for HE, 33 Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes ; and I shall keep it unto the end. 34 Give me understanding,... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 502 pages
...also corresponds the language of Old Testament saints. For one of them thus expresses himself: " I will run the way of thy commandments, " when thou shalt enlarge my heart."* Various are the degrees of enlargement which the human mind attains. The desires of some men are bounded... | |
| Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1810 - 540 pages
...law. Help me to take thy " Yoke upon me, for I shall find it easy. / Christ's Yoke an easy Yoke. 145 " will run the way of thy commandments, " when thou shalt enlarge my heart." Upon the whole, in the truth illustrated in the first clause of the text, we see exemplified that close... | |
| Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased. Psal. cxix. 32. I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart. 0 1 John ii. 1. My little children, these things wtite I unto you, that ye siu not. And if any man... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...so ; nor did David. He was often shut up, and cries, " Bring my soul out of prison;" and again, " I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart;" and again, "Thou hast loosed my bonds;" and again, " Restore unto me the joys of thy salvation, and... | |
| Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...find it so ; every deviation from perfect obedience to his holy law, is proportionally slavery. " I will run the way of thy commandments, "when thou shalt enlarge my heart ;" or set it at liberty from the prison and bondage of sin. "And " I will walk, at liberty, for I seek... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1812 - 420 pages
...God. David freely acknowledged before God his need of divine influence, in every act of obedience. "I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart." Jeremiah humbh said, "O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh... | |
| Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 520 pages
...but true spiritual joy makes one forward in the duties of universal obedience, Psal. cxix. 32. ' I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.' And it makes one tender in moral duties towards God, and towards man. Inf. 1. Unjustified persons cannot... | |
| John Howe - 1813 - 536 pages
...course unto which it prompts. Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, 2 Cor. 3. 17. And I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart, Ps. 119. 32. 2. It is to be argued by an induction of such particulars, as we have formerly instanced... | |
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