 | Henry Belfrage - 1822 - 246 pages
...men, who describe their gracious attainments by the temper of children. " Lord," saith the Psalmist, " my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty, neither...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me ; I have surely behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother, — my soul is... | |
 | Charles Bradley (Vicar of Glasbury.) - 1823 - 370 pages
...spirit of this short but lovely Psalm, and copy after the example which it setteth before them.] 1. ' LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty;...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.' Pride beginneth in the ' heart,' and discovereth itself in the ' eyes,' the countenance, and the carriage... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...nothing shall offend themAnd this peace and quietness he says he derived froffl his filial piety. " Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother. "/ soul is even as a weaned child." Solomon says, " A good man shall be satisfied from himself." And... | |
 | 1823 - 154 pages
...man. (33 Job, 17.) 16. T•Jm:< was ll,i} I 'siiliai.it enabled to declare his humility before God? Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; neither do I exercise myself iu great matters, or in things too high for me. Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child... | |
 | 1823 - 486 pages
...this afiair. His way may differ from that which I should choose : but let it be so 1 Surely I hatie behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even аз а weaned child." A spiritual mind has something of the nature of the SENSITIVE-PLANT»... | |
 | 1824 - 570 pages
...bold speculations which, to the Christian, are forbidden fruit. Under this impression, David says, " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul ia even as a weaned child." Psal. cxxxi. t, 2 — To the same purport, also, is the injunction... | |
 | 1847 - 390 pages
...and striving to climb to objects high above its reach. Well is it for those who can say with truth, " Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me," Psa. cxxxi. 1. Rapid was the rise of Napoleon, but much more rapid his decline. War was at once his... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 528 pages
...some men is to understand things which cannot be understood. — When David appealed to God, saying, Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. — My soul is as a weaned child, — it implies, that there were men who did ; and so there are still.... | |
 | Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), John Norman Pearson - 1825 - 636 pages
...finds himself very disproportioned to his present station, be it never so mean. He can say with David, Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. Psal. cxxxi. 1. But vain minds would still be tampering with the greatest affairs, and dwell not with... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1825 - 536 pages
...some men is to understand things which cannot be understood. — When David appealed to God, saying, Lord, my heart- is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty...myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. — My soul is as a. weaned child, — it implies, that there were men who did ; and so . there are... | |
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LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me. 2 Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. 
