...sovereign hand, which holds your souls, bodies, and all your comforts ; how quiet would your hearts be ! "I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." Ps. 39 : 9. " It is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good." 1 Sam. 3 : 18. Oh, when we have to...

...consideration and belief of this struck holy David dumb before God when under the afflicting rod of God? " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it," Psalm xxxix. 9. As hath been already observed, there is neither good nor evil that can fall out without...

...case, to say it is well, — because God doth it. This passed for an unanswerable reason with David, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it I, and with good old Eli, under a severer trial than ours, // is the Lord, let him do as seemeth good...

...former expresses himself thus: It is the Lord ; let him do what seemeth him good : and, the latter said, I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. Both of them were exposed to great afflictions; both of them •were oppressed with a sense of their...

...there can be no patience. Consider it as the hand of God, and thence argue the soul into submission™. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it. But this heaviness is mitigated, and set. as it were within its banks, betwixt these two considerations,...

...i. 21. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Psal. xxix. 9. I was dumb I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it, Psal. cxix. 75. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right ; and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted...

...hope is in thee. 8 Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish. 9 sed 10 Remove thy stroke away from me : I »m consumed by the blow of thine hand. 11 When thou with rebukes...

...their laughing-stock, nor mock at my reliance on thee, and patient submission to thee. •' ' Ver. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth : because thou didst it.\ For I did not complain, but silently endured their insolent and scurrilous language, together with...

...remembrance, and is humbled, or bowed down in me.' So David, when he was under the rod, could say, ' I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it.' I have read of one, who when any thing fell out prosperously, would read over the lamentation of Jeremiah,...

...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...