...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 w in thee. 8 Deliver me 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. o^i,, 10 Remove thy stroke away from me^l am consumed by the blow ol Urine hand. П \\hen thou with...

...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...

...array about him ; and whither flies he for a deliverance? Even to Him whom he had offended. Ver. 9, 10. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because Thou didst it. Remove Thy stroke away from me : I am consumed by the blow of Thine hand. We are naturally very partial...

...and to turn the flowmg stream into the channel of repentance " Be still, and know that I am God."—" I was dumb : I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." "Why should a living man complain a man, for the pumshment of his sins ?" If smllin? mercy crown our...

...old Eli, ' It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good ;' to say on all occasions with David; 'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.' On this consideration we should not only be satisfied with, and acquiesce in, but praise and adore...

...old Eli, ' It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good ;' to say on all occasions with David; 'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.' On this consideration we should not only be satisfied with, and acquiesce in, but praise and adore...

...can be'lP^atience. Consider it as the hand of God, and thence argue the soul into submission, Psal. xxxix. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. But this heaviness is mitigated, and set, as it were, within its banks, betwixt these two considerations,...

...ignorant of his designs, we may safely confide in Him who does and will direct all contingencies. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it," is the language of humble and submissive confidence. While nature weeps, the Christian remembers that...

...dispensations, thy will be done!" Happy is he who, like David, can look back upon chastisements and say, "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." Psal. xxxix. " Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in...