 | Sarah Martin - 1799 - 152 psl.
...night. " I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste : " " The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver," are the texts which form the motto of her Scripture Book. When books of a devotional character have... | |
 | 1803 - 490 psl.
...For thus we find in the book of Psalms, from the hands of David the King of Israel, (Ps. cxix. 72.) The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. For in the hour of a man's departing this life, there attendeth not upon the man, either silver or... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 psl.
...Job xxiii. 12. 1 have esteemed the words of his mouth, more than my necessary food. Psal cxix. 72. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of. gold and silver. 2. In our earnest dt-sires after the word, Psal cxix. 20, 131. My soul breaketh for the longing that... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 psl.
...rejoice in thy word," said David, as one "that findeth great spoil. The entrance thereof giveth light. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Ps. cxix. Again ; strong faith is another part of the Christian's happy experience. He is enabled to... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 psl.
...xxiii. 12. ' I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.' Psal. cxix. 72. ' The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' (2.) A love of desire after it, 1 Pet. ii. 2. 'As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word,... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Princeton Theological Seminary - 1812 - 128 psl.
...to be desired, than gold, yea, than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey and the honey comb.' ' The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' ' Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage.' How delightful must it be to sit as... | |
 | Samuel Miller, Princeton Theological Seminary - 1812 - 134 psl.
...to be desired, than gold, yea, than much fine gold : sweeter also than honey and the honey comb.' ' The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.' ' Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage.' How delightful must it be to sit as... | |
 | 1847 - 760 psl.
...of my life : " Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage ;" "How I love thy law;" "The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." It is the code of heaven, and cordially obeyed by the children of men it would create heaven upon earth.... | |
 | Samuel Whitman - 1814 - 390 psl.
...thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than the honey to my mouth. I luve thy COMMANDMENTS above gold. The LAW of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." The reason why the Psalmist had such a peculiar regard for the dtvine laie, we learn from the nineteenth... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 psl.
...taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver." He gives the reasons of his high estimation of the word of God in the 19th Psalm. "The law of the Lord... | |
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It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. 72 The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. 
