| New Church gen. confer - 640 pages
...righteous is less prostrate than the future state of the wicked. " The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord : and he delighteth in His way. Though...down : for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand." The states and changes described in this psalm, and its consolations and promises also, are, in their... | |
| Samuel Whitman - 1814 - 390 pages
...scriptures, by those sacrifices for sin which were expressly required to be burned. The Psalmist saith, "The wicked shall perish, and the enemies Of the Lord...shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away." . Had not David considered the fire on the altar, as a figure oJf divine anger, we' have no reason... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pages
...thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin " (Ps. xxxii. 5). " The steps of a good man are ordered by tthe Lord : and He delighteth in his way. Though he fall,...cast down : for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand" (Ps. xxxvii. 23, 24). All, alas ! have sometimes gone aside from the narrow way, fainted in the race,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 616 pages
...MANCHESTER, October 3rd, 1876. DEPARTURE OF MR. BROADFIELD.i " The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord ; and He delighteth in his way. Though...fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : for the Lord npholdeth him with His hand." — Ps. xxxvii. 23, 24. THE long, active, and intimate connection of... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...happiness therein. . Such a man may be occasionally discouraged, but he cannot long be cast down. Yea, "though he fall he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand." (Ps. xxxvii. 24.) The Lord ordereth the steps of the good man ; of him who delighteth in the way of... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...shall be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord : and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and nota am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging... | |
| 1815 - 614 pages
...shall be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down : for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old ; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...able to rise again, and recover what he has lost, there is another promise in Psal. xxxvi. 34, 28. ' Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down ; for ' the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. The Lord loveth ' judgment, and forsaketh not his saints :' And God also says, in Heb. xiii. 5. ' I... | |
| Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 508 pages
...able to rise again, and recover what he has lost, there is another promise in Psal. xxxvi. 24, 28. ' Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down ; for * the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. The Lord loveth 1 judgment, and forsaketh not his saints :' And God also says, in Heb. xiii. 5. ' I... | |
| David Brown, Charles Simeon - 1816 - 528 pages
...all times, and who sticketh 'closer than a brother. " " Th« " The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way; though...cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand." The steps, journeys, visits, occupations, and conversation of a good man, are ordered by the Lord.... | |
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