...tempest ; from plague, pestilence, and famine ; from battle and murder, and from sudden death ? Surely, it is of the Lord's mercies, that we are not consumed ; because his compassions fail not. Great is thy faithfulness. 3. In providing for their support and comfort. It is of the Lord's pleasure...

...strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwoex and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. I is of the Lord's mercies that we are not con sumed, because...

...our very being and life itself; that we are obliged to acknowlege -with those in the Lamentations, ' It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.' W ere we far better than we are, yet it would not become us to contest with him, to whose disposal...

...us better than we love ourselves, of dealing hardly with us ! !] O let me admire His forbearance : "It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not." Lam. iii. 22. " He hath not dealt with us after our sins ; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities....

...redeemed my life. And I said, My strength and my hope is in the Lord ; remembering my affliction and mj misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled within me. This I recal to my mind, therefore I have hope. It is the Lord's mercies that we are not...

...for yourself; or because of his own mercy ?" " Because of His own mercy, sir." " You say right : — it is ' of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.' Never let this great truth slip from your memory, that neither our repentance, nor our holiness, nor...

...has been aggravated beyond that of any other country, by reason of our preeminent advantages. Surely it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. Surely at the end of another harvest we are constrained to exclaim, " Not unto us, O Lord, not unto...

...Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord: and carried them all the days of old. /-•. Ixiii. 9. // is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not Lam. iii. 22. Who iv a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression...

...prostrate before them ! It is a virus that I know experimentally, and shudder at the thoughts of it : " remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood...them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me." As long as it lasts, we can never convince a Friend of one of his " legion" of subordinate mistakes!...

...Many can bless God for affliction. Affliction humbles, Lam. jii. 19, 20, " Remembering my affliction, the worm-wood and the gall, my soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me." Afflictions are compared to thorns, Hos. ii. 6, these thorns are to prick the bladder of pride. Affliction...