| Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 pages
...bridle it, like an unruly horse. David said, Psalm xxxix. 1. "I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle." We may therefore, with that man after God's own heart, compare the tongue to a city, which is well... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 470 pages
...fool," said the wise man, "is full of words," Eccles. x. 14. "I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue. I will keep my mouth with a bridle," Psal. xxxix. 1. An ancient hermit abused this maxim; for, after he had heard the first verse of the... | |
| Joseph McKean - 1814 - 366 pages
...• • " * • . "* PSALM XXXIX. Vanity of life. 1 SAID, I will take heed to my ways, "that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good, and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart was... | |
| 1815 - 614 pages
...chief Musician, even to Jeduthun, A Psalm of David. 1 Said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good ; and my sorrow was stirred. 3 My heart... | |
| William Bates - 1815 - 544 pages
...circumspect, joined his fervent requests to God: " 1 said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue, I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth, and keep the door of my lips." Psal. 143. 3. His special guidance... | |
| 1815 - 974 pages
...Tothechief Mufician,/i>«f to Jedulhun, A Pfalm of David. 1 SAID, I will take heed to my ways, that I fin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. 2 I was dumb with filence, I held tny peace, even from good ; and my forrow was flirred. & My heart... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 554 pages
...is another. Psal. xxxix. 1, 2. MI said I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue; 1 will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. I was dumb with silence, I held my peace, even from good:" — even from good — that is, he was so... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1818 - 568 pages
...want of that Pf. xxxix. caution of the Pfalmift, I faid, I will take heed to mys i. ex ia ways> {fat I Jin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with...fpite againft confcience ; affecting the reputation of flout bkdes, of gallant hectors* of refblute giants, who dare dp any thing, who are not afraid to defy... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 550 pages
...funeral is indeed the best comment upon it. • 1. I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue : I will keep my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me. . nThe Psalm begins abruptly with the result of a meditation on the narrow, slippery, and dangerous... | |
| 1819 - 488 pages
...with thy praise, and with thy honour all the day '. I said, I will take heed to my ways that I sin not with my tongue, I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me'. All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils, my lips shall not speak... | |
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