...his own declarations abundantly show. " O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day." " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." Now, what we delight in, it is natural to make known. We read to others the book or the paragraph we...

...words of the Lord are pure words; as silver tried in a. furnace of earth, purified seven times. 12 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. 13 Thy testimonies that thou hast commanded are righteous and very faithful. 14 I have seen an end...

...language of the Psalmist — "Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Let my heart be sound in thy statutes ; that I be not ashamed. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage...

...delight and my counsellors." 2 " I 102 will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved." l " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." 2 " O how love I thy law ! it is my meditation all the day." 3 u I hate vain thoughts : but thy law...

...calculated to convey to the soul. " O how I love thy law !" says David, " it is my meditation all the day. The law of thy mouth is better unto me, than thousands of gold an^ silver. I have rejoiced in thy testimonies as much as in alJ riches." The moral maxims contained...

...say with l)avid, " How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey unto my mouth." "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." For blessed are they who walk in the law of the Lord, who keep his testimonies, and who seek him with...

...tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." 3 72. The lav) of thy mouth is better unto me, than thousands of gold and silver. WELL might David acknowledge the benefit of affliction, inasmuch as it had been the means of his "...

...says the Psalmist, speaking of it, " than gold, yea than much fine gold," Ps. xix. 10. And again, " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver," Ps. cxix. 72. In this sense then anrn, may be used for gold, and, perhaps, from the resemblance between the appearance...

...Job says, " 1 have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food ;" and, says David, " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver; more to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much tine gold ; yea, sweeter also than honey, and...

...tract, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, chap. iii. sect. 6, on The Advantages of Sickness. 72. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Affliction taketh from us the inclination to offend, and it giveth us, in return, a knowledge of that...