...end of this good man, CHRISTIAN nimbly stretched out his hand for his sword, and caught it, saying, " Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy ! " when I fall, I shall arise;"' and with that gave him a deadly thrust, which made him give back as one that had received his mortal...

...life-time subject to bondage*. The christian may express his triumph in the words of the Prophet; " rejoice not against me, O mine " enemy; when I fall I shall arise, when " I sit in darkness the Lord will be a light * Heb. ii. 15. " unto u unto me*:" or, in those of the Apostle, " the night is far...

...times seemingly overpowered and overcome : yet with the church of old it is his privilege to say, " Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, when I fall...arise, when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a tight unto me." Most encouraging and comforting thought ! Victory does not rest on his own exertions...

...of the church, concluding that those afflictions were the forerunner of the church's destruction : " Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy! When I fall, I shall arise; Avhen I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me." Mic. vii. 8. Fatherly chastisements and...

...tribulations ; " I will look unto the Lord : I will wait for the God of my salvation : my God will hear me. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy : when I fall,...I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me."....Micah vii. 7, 8. Sweet confession of faith under very discouraging views. But ^fhile the Lord...

...my slanderers. Micah's words much affecM my heart ; chap. vii. S — lo. " Rejoice not against me, < mine enemy ; when I fall I shall arise ; when I sit in darkned the Lord shall be a light unto me, Sic." Then, and ever sinca 1 have found that the Lord hath...

...shall men be distracted with their fears ; but, as for me, I will look unto the Lord. VII. 8 Bejoice not against me, O mine enemy : when I fall, I shall arise. Rejoice not too much in my misery, O Idumea and Babylon : though I fall into captivity, yet I shall...

...hear them;"-|- — "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up;".];—" When I fall I shall arise; when I sit in darkness the Lord shall be a light unto me^'^-and many others: not to mention our Lord's declara'tion — " Take no thought for the morrow:...

...I will look unto the Lord : I will wait for the God of my salvation : my God will hear me. Ver. 8. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy : when I fall, I shall arise ; when 1 sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me. Ver. 9. I will bear the indignation of the Lord,...

...unshaken reliance on his faithfulness and power, you may now adopt the exulting language of the church, Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy, when I fall, I shall arise. Hereafter you shall sing the song of Moses and of the Lamb in those man*' 394 The Grace of Christ ,...