...was able to say unto God in the sincerity of his heart, after he had gone through the fiery trial, "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it." While Paul was returning from a long journey to Jerusalem, a certain prophet named Agabus forewarned...

...submission under sufferings the most acute, and that entire acquiescence in the sovereign will of God : " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it," Ps. xxxix. 9.' Witness that supernatural detachment from the world, which enables him to resign, without murmuring...

...i» his trial. And while he beheld the hand of God afflicting him, he was filled with submission. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." In this conduct of David under his trials, we havemarked out our duty in similar eireumstanees. It...

...what wilt thou have me to do ?" David wraps himself up in the stillness of patience and submission : " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou " didst it." There stands old Eli ; he has received the most distressing intelligence, and piously exclaims " it...

...we live, and move, and have our being, we shall meekly say with respect to all his appointments, ' I was dumb ; I opened not my mouth because Thou didst it !' This, -however, I own, is a thought to silence, rather than comfort us. It is not till we can see...

...just in all that i« brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Nek. 9. 33- I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by tbe blow of thine hand. P,s. 3P. 9, 10. I will bear...

...for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth : surely every man is vanity. Sclah. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it. Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, sit ye here,...

...hope is 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. 10 Remove thy stroke away from me : I urn consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes...

...is the Lord: 1 Sam. iii. 18. — David, under a stroke which he declares consumed him, observes, / was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because THOU didst it: Ps. xxxix. 9. — And Job, when stript of every comfort, blessed the name of him who took away, as well as gave:...

...this pleasant stream, that we may depend entirely on the fountain. We must say with the Psalmist, ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it.' The cup, though bitter, overflows with mercies. About two months before he was taken sick, I had a...