...chastenest, O Lord! and teachest him out of thy law. It is good for me that I have been afflicted. Before I was afflicted, I went astray; but now have I kept thy word. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation ; for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life...

...For he niaketh sore, and bindeth up ; he woundeth, and his hands -make whole, Job v. 17, 18. Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. I know, O Lord, thy...

...her hand, and the fever left her : and she arose, and ministered unto them, Matt. viii. 15. Before I was afflicted, I went astray : but now have I kept thy word, Psal. cxix. 67. It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes, 71....

...saying, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes ; before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." • .' Nor is it merely in affliction in general that the goodness of God is manifest, but in its peculiar...

...saying, " It is good for me that I have been afflicted ; that I might learn thy statutes ; before I was afflicted I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word." Nor is it merely in affliction in general that the goodness of God is manifest, but in its peculiar...

...then he would fervently thank God for having afflicted him. Of him it may well be said, " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." He was not, as he himself expressed it, a good scholar ; but some plain and easy Tracts supplied him...

...your heart, and alienating your affections from God and your fellow-men ? Can you say, with the pious psalmist, Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word 1 Or have you rather dealt proudly — despised reproof — sinned against judgments — and thus been...

...that there is no truth more clearly and fully taught than this, in the sacred oracles. Thus the holy psalmist — " Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now have I kept thy word — It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes" — And thus, extensively,...

...your heart, and alienating your affections from God and your fellow-men ? Can you say, with the pious psalmist, Before I was afflicted, I went astray ; but now have I kept thy word ? Or have you rather dealt proudly — despised reproof- — sinned against judgments — and thus...

...enabled to amend what had been hitherto amiss, and to advance in piety. As he says, ver. 67, " before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept thy word." There were errors and faults in his conduct, in the time of ease and prosperity, which afflictions...