...people. Thus the prophet Jeremiah b expresses his spiritual joy, and the sense of this mystery : " Thy words were found and. I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and • i * Morch Nevoch. lib. ic SO. . ' Ecclus. xv. 3. . " Isaiah, Iv. J, 2. * Malt. v. 6. J Amos.viii.il....

...receive them deeply into our mind and heart. Thus Jeremiah says, (xv. 16.) "Thy words were found, and 1 did eat them ; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart." Thus the apostle was to eat the little book; thoroughly to understand and digest it. This at first...

...pleasure the mind of man is capable of in this world. " Thy words were found of me," says Jeremiah, " and I did eat them ; and thy word was unto .me the joy and rejoicing of my heart," Jer. xv. 16; as pleasant food to a famishing man ; for now conscience is quieted, comforted,...

...statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." And the prophet Jeremiah saith to God, " Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...was unto me the joy and rejoicing - of mine heart." While selfish creatures hate revealed truth, and are offended with a clear exhibition of it, the benevolent...

...out of thy law. — My soul breakethfor the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.— Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. — Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage. — The law of thy mouth...

...will show you what I .mean." Becksy obeyed, and Miss Anstey read as follows from Jeremiah xv. 16 : " ' Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of nTine heart.' Now doesn't that prove two things, don't you -think ?" Becksy tried to think, but could...

...out of thy law. — My soul breakethfor the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all timei.-Thy words were found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. — Thy statutes have been my song in the house of my pilgrimage. — The law of thy mouth...

...anj eat it up ; and it shall wafo? i/iy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth suei't as honey. > Thy words were found, and I did eat them ; and thy...word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart : for I am called by thy name, O Lono God of hosts, Jer. rv. 16. Moreover he said unto me, Son of man,...

...persecutors ; take me not away in thy long-suffering : know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke. 16 oice, even mine. 16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips mo the joy and rejoicing of mine heart : NOTES. CHAP. XV. Ver. S. For dtatk * namely, the ci/w— h'iiilenc*....

...occasional visions or revelations, but by a constant and assiduous search into God's revealed will. "Thy words were found, and I did eat them: and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. O, how I love thy law: it is my meditation all the day. From a child thou hast known the...