...can tend more to produce submission to his will than the sight of his hand ? Therefore David said, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it" — " It is the Lord," whose power is almighty, and who cannot be resisted. "It is the Lord," who has...

...his infancy, had so often constituted his burden. The posture of my soul was nowlike that of David. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." How consoling the reflection, that under such rebukes nature may have leave to speak in tears, since...

...city," it is " the Lord that hath done it," our first duty is that expressed by the Psalmist — " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it:" — and our tecond is conveyed in the admonition of Solomon — " In the day of adversity, consider."...

...all your concerns. This consideration repressed the ferment of unsanctified passion in David — " I was dumb; I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." This calmed Job: though the Chaldeans, the Sabeans, and the elements of nature had deprived him of...

...namely, the origin, the progress, and the end of true religion. No. 10. — South, on Ps. xxxix. 9 : " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." Here the subject is submission, and our author takes occasion to remark on the graces of faith, &c.,...

...the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good."4 David hushed his impatient spirit into silence — " I was dumb ; I opened not my mouth, because thou didst it." And when Shimei cursed him, he said — " Let him alone, let him curse ; for the Lord hath bidden him."5...

...the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord." With David, our language would be :—" I was dumb, I opened not my mouth: because thou didst it." With Habakkuk, we should sing, "Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in...

...regard to God's providential disposals about them, though others tad a criminal hand in them, says, " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth ; because thou didst it." And our blessed Lord himself patiently endured his terrible sufferings on this principle, saying, "...

...good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. — Ps. xxxix. 9. I was dumb, I opened not my mouth; because thou didst it. — Matt. vi. 10. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Matt. xxvi. 39....

...said, the thing proceedeth from the Lord ; we cannot speak untothee bad or good." — GEN. xxiv, 50. " I was dumb, I opened not my mouth because thou didst it.'' — Ps. xxxix, 9. And again, " Thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren...