 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - 1817 - 306 pages
...we enter not into temptation. Prayer is of very little avail, unless we watch too, with vigilance. The Psalmist says, " I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies." Consideration is always the first step towards reformation : Therefore, let... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 606 pages
...zealous and diligent Christians ? Certainly consideration would do very much to your conversion. " I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies, I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments 5." Hindrance 6. The next great impediment to... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 380 pages
...worth our care, and should make us vanquish all difficulties in the performance. David declares, ' I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies ' He first reflected on his ways, and then reformed them. Conscience must be awakened by grace or judgment,... | |
 | John Leifchild, Redford (Rev. Dr.) - 1838 - 586 pages
...experience—a change of life, originating in a change of heart, and that commencing in serious reflection. " I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies." 1. Let us review the source and nature of this great and happy change. There is a turning away of the... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1842 - 1004 pages
...ought also to be active in removing the causes of God's being offended. Up, sanctify the people. ' I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments.' When the path of duty is set before us, there... | |
 | Robert Wharton Landis - 1844 - 146 pages
...explicit. David shows us that there is a way to repent, and to some extent what that way is, when he says, ' I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies' — and Ezekiel, in chap, 18 : 28, ' Because he considereth and turneth away from his wickedness, he... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - 1848 - 228 pages
...really to think, we may hope they will soon think rightly. So seems the idea of the Royal Psalmist, "I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies." Thoughtlessness is one of man's greatest enemies ; and no effort can be too great which shall draw... | |
 | Henry Melvill - 1850 - 424 pages
...congregation with a stern and startling summons ; never let it be thought that he either keeps out of eight the moral inabilities of man, or urges to an inert...repentance. The great evil with the mass of men is, that, BO far ut least as eternity is concerned, they never think at all — once make them think, and you... | |
 | Ichabod Smith Spencer - 1855 - 438 pages
...salvation.' " " But I don't wish to be in a hurry, sir." " You ought to be in haste. David was. He says, 'I thought on my ways and turned my feet to thy testimonies. I made haste and delayed not to keep thy commandments.' God now commandeth all men, everywhere, to... | |
 | 1855 - 366 pages
...keep thy words. I entreated thy favor with my whole heart ; be merciful to me according to thy word. I thought on my ways, and turned my feet to thy testimonies. I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments. At midnight I will rise to give thanks to thee,... | |
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determined to put off religion no longer ;' and therefore I say, 'now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation.'" "But I don't wish to be in a hurry, Sir." " You ought to be in haste. David was. He says, ' I thought on my ways and turned my... 
