...patience. 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 it mitigated, and set as it were within its banks, betwixt these two considerations...

...for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth : surely every man is vanity. Selah. 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,...

...which I see not, teach thou me : if I have done iniquity, I will do so no more. — Job xxxiv. 31, 32. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. — Ps. xxxix. 9. Woe to him that strivcth with his Maker, &c. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What...

...in the evil* they suffer, they never fail to feel a quiet and submissive spirit. Hence David said, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." And it was in the exercise of faith, that Job felt and expressed such extraordinary submission and...

...murmuring in the midst of our greatest troubles and most racking paia : it will cause us to say with David, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it, Psal. xxxix. 9 ; or, if we open our lips, it will be to say, with a blessed servant of God : Lord,...

...bear the due punishment of all our sins at His Father's hands, according to that of the psalmist, " I was dumb, I opened not My mouth ; because Thou didst it." Therefore the prophet immediately subjoins that of His silent carriage to that which He had spoken...

...saw it needful to answer the most benevolent ends. She has reason, therefore, to say as David did; " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because THOU didst it." If she can cordially say this; instead of 'refusing to be comforted,' she will, like Job, bless God,...

...was ireached at Staughton, by Mr. Knight, his highly esteemed pastor. Oct. 26, from Psalm xxxix. 9. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." MRS. MARY HENWOOD. THE subject of this paper, Mrs. Mary Henwood, was impressed with eternal things...

...hand upon my mouth : once have 1 spoken, but I will not answer,&c. — Jobxl. I — 5. xlii. S — 6. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. — l*s. xxxix. 9. My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, neither be weary of his correction...

...described by the ancient Hebrew prophets. " I was dumb with silence, I held my peace even from good," said David, when he had been suffering under the chastisement of the Lord, — " / was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it ;" Ps. xxxix, 2. 9. " Why do we sit...