| William Jay - Families - 1833 - 518 pages
...thinks upon you, ought you not to think upon him ! David did. " 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 I am still with thee." If he minds your affairs — Be not you forgetful of his. Ever... | |
| Thomas Wright - Families - 1831 - 424 pages
...fashioned, when as yet there were none of them.'' How precious also have been thy thoughts unto me, 0 God : how great is the sum of them. If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand. Ever since I came into existence, thou hast been unto me as a shepherd ; thou hast led me as by green... | |
| King's Chapel (Boston, Mass.) - Hymns, English - 1831 - 564 pages
...day were 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 ;... | |
| Joseph Fincher - 1832 - 80 pages
...snail deliver me from the body of this death ! Ps. cxxxix. 17, 18. How precious 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 ! Ps. cxix. 103. How sweet are thy words unto my taste ! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth ! 2 SAM.... | |
| Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...suffering saints, let 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 more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee. How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God, therefore the children... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 562 pages
...end. In meditating on these, we should soon be constrained to say, " How precious are thy thoughts to 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, I am still with theeV Let us, then, address ourselves to this holy employment. Let... | |
| Christian life - 1832 - 642 pages
...also are thy 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... | |
| William Jay - Calendars - 1832 - 704 pages
...sweet it will be 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 are more in number than the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee." AUGUST 21.—" Little children."—1 John ii. 12. THIS is a... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. Ps. cxix. 15. 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 tlian the sand : when I awake, I am still with thee. Pi. cxxxix. 17, IS. I meditate on all thy works;... | |
| Thomas Dick - Christian ethics - 1833 - 404 pages
...minister to his enjoy^ment, — he cannot forbear exclaiming, in the language of grateful admiration, "How precious are thy wonderful contrivances concerning...count them, they are more in number than the sand. I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made !" He does not overlook such instances... | |
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