| Henry Bacon - 1845 - 168 pages
...chamber — our closet of prayer, when the door is shut— and gaze on the open page of the Bible. "My soul cleaveth unto the dust : quicken thou me according to thy word." The dust, while it retains the form through which the spirit of the beloved and precious shone, cannot... | |
| 1846 - 780 pages
...but too manifest even in the believer's soul. Witness the supplication of David (Psalm cxix. 2 J) : " My soul cleaveth unto the dust, quicken thou me according to thy word." Infatuated, therefore, is the objector who tells us of the danger of unsettling the minds of men with... | |
| Edward Walwyn Foley - 1847 - 256 pages
...Saviour flag? Are our affections cold and earthly, and are we troubled thereat? The word is our remedy, " My soul cleaveth unto the dust, quicken thou me, according to thy word," Psalm cxix. 25. Are we walking in darkness, and is our way perplexed? " Thy word is a lamp unto my... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1847 - 474 pages
...would put forth all its strength to do the will of Christ, revealed in His gift of preventing grace. " My soul cleaveth unto the dust : quicken Thou me according to Thy word."1 This is first a cry of distress under the clog and hindrance of an earthly and sluggish nature,... | |
| Joseph Jones - 1848 - 444 pages
...proud opposers of His truth, and exalt its faithful disciples to honour and happiness. PART 4. DALETH. 25 My soul cleaveth unto the dust : Quicken Thou me according to Thy word. 26 I have declared my ways, and Thou heardest me : . Teach me Thy statutes. 27 Make me to understand... | |
| David Abeel - 1849 - 340 pages
...dependence on God. We are «ot " sufficient of ourselves." 2. Send up petitions for Divine assistance. — " My soul cleaveth unto the dust ; quicken thou me according to thy word." 3. Engage your heart previously — " Who is this that hath engaged his heart to approach unto me,... | |
| Alexander Gordon (of Walsall.) - 1848 - 134 pages
...Lord ! teach me thy statutes. Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. My soul cleaveth unto the dust, quicken thou me according to thy word. My soul melteth for heaviness, strengthen thou me according to thy word. Make haste, O God, to deliver... | |
| Mrs. Kemp - 1849 - 294 pages
...spirit with her husband's supplications, and the language of her heart was, as it had often been before, "My soul cleaveth unto the dust, quicken Thou me according to Thy word." The next morning before Mr. Moreton left his home, he informed his wife, in answer to her anxious inquiries,... | |
| William Archer Butler, Thomas Woodward - 1849 - 654 pages
...still be with David — " I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart;" "My soul cleaveth unto the dust ; quicken thou me according to thy word ;" — his highest offerings, as he contemplates those exceeding broad commandments that involve the... | |
| 1849 - 444 pages
...fell out, and the dead corpse fell down into the fire. prayer ; look to your own spirit: say, " Lord, my soul cleaveth unto the dust; quicken Thou me according to thy word;"—and shall you not receive an answer to prayer, and, fervent in spirit, rejoice in the Lord?—... | |
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