 | John Bunyan - Fear of God - 1839 - 188 pages
...? doth she give up her faith and hope, and return to that fear that begot the first bondage ? No; " The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him ;" yea, she adds, " O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life," Lam.... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pages
...in the fields, or the domestic servant, who, possessing little of the world's good, can exclaim, " The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him." CHRISTIAN REPROOF. To any of his friends who had contracted the irreverent habit of taking God's name... | |
 | Baptists - 1839 - 656 pages
...people had been already prepared to receive them. Mr. Davenport, in a series of sermons from the text, " The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him," had called the attention of his flock to the gloomy aspect of the cause of liberty and religion in... | |
 | John Thornton - Children - 1839 - 136 pages
...had been laid desolate, and his best friends and earthly comforts swept away by the storm of war : " The Lord is my portion, saith my soul ; therefore will I hope in him." Hear the apostle of the Gentiles : " For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,... | |
 | Sermons, English - 1839 - 442 pages
...sanctified by the presence of Jehovah. In every one of them " he bows his heavens and comes down." " The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him." But again : The true believer has the Lord for his inheritance, because he has the peace of God shed... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1839 - 414 pages
...ту soul, Ps. ciii. 2. Which their souls have said to them. Among the rest, this is one, The Lard is my portion, saith my soul ; therefore will I hope in him. Where we have two things : I. A doctrinal position or assertion. The Lord, that is, the Lord Jesus... | |
 | James Smith (of Shoreditch, London.) - 1840 - 272 pages
...travellers home.' " Dear Sister in Jesus, farewell, " Yours in him, " JS" To Miss EB "Jan. 81, 1833. " ' The Lord is my portion saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him' (Lam. iii. 34). Is it not wonderful that we should find such a passage in a world of lamentations, in a book of... | |
 | Bible - 1840 - 254 pages
...flesh and my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Lam. iii. 24. The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him. Gen. xv. 1. I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. Of Glory.— Is. xxviii. 5. In that day... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 326 pages
...inspired writers, and other holy 22* men, expressing their emotions in such language as this : — " The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in Him ;" " Whom have I in heaven, but Thee, and there is none upon earth, I desire in comparison of Thee.... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1841 - 598 pages
...compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness."J Well might Jeremiah say, " The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him."§ * Jer. xxxi. 2. f Isa - xlv - l7- £ Lam - '». 22 i 23 Are we groaning under a deep conviction of... | |
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The Lord is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in Him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. 
