 | Thomas Chalmers - 1830 - 484 pages
...cxxxix. 1 — 7. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O Godl how great is the sum of them 1 If 1 should count them they are more in number than the sand : when I awake I am still with thee. Psalms cxxxix. 17, 18. The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good. Prov.... | |
 | Elizabeth Strutt - 1830 - 272 pages
...them. '' How precious also are thy thoughts unto me O God ! how great is the sum of them. '' If I could count them, they are more in number than the sand ; when I awake, I am still with thee. " Sure thou wilt stay the wicked, O God : depart from me therefore ye bloody men. " Far they speak... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 604 pages
...precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they arc more in number than the sand ; when I awake, I am still with thee." The wonderful things designed and virtually accomplished in what Christ did when on the earth, are... | |
 | William Shewen - 1830 - 208 pages
...precious arc thy thoughts unto me, O God, how great is the sum of them? If I should count them they arc more in number than the sand; when I awake I am still with thcc." As thou lovcst the light. and delightest in the law of God, and meditatcst therein, these good... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 518 pages
...frequent! Could you not say, with David, >' How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O Lord ; how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I am awake, I am still with thee." I remember thy holy and active zeal : — how you abounded in the... | |
 | King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - 1831 - 564 pages
...fashioned, when as yet there was none of them. How dear are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! O how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand ; when I rise up, I am still meditating upon them. Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart ; prove me,... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...frequent ; and I shall be able to say, " How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, 0 God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they...than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee." AUGUST 21.—" Little children."—1 John ii. 12. THIS is a mode of address which, if not entirely... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...us strike our harps with David and sing : " How precious are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them. If I should count them they are...than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God, therefore the children of men put their trust under the... | |
 | 1832 - 642 pages
...thoughts unto me, (and to all the seed royal in me, Jer. xxix. 11. with Isa. Iv. 8, 9.) 0 God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, 1 am still with thee." This it was that caused the king of Israel, in faith's . view of the eternal... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 558 pages
...CHRISTIAN'S DELIGHT IN GOD. Ps. cxxxix. 17, 18. How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God ! how great is the sum of them ! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand : when I awake, 1 am still with thee. THESE words will admit of a twofold interpretation : they may be considered as... | |
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