...appointed. SAMUEL DUNN. Nervcastle-on-Tyne, Dee. 13th, 1845. THEOLOGY. THE PRISON OF THE SOUL. A SERMON. " Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name." — Psalm cxlii. 7. This Psalm is said to contain a prayer of David when he was in a cave. The Psalmist...

...present to expound and apply. Pray for me. My present experience answers to Book iii., hymn 34 ; • and no prayer seems more suitable to me than that of the...my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name." We love you and Mrs. Bull. Tell her so. And, once more let me beg, that if I cannot come to you, you...

...present to expound and apply. Pray for me. My present experience answers to Book iii., hymn 34 ; and no prayer seems more suitable to me than that of the...my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name." We love you and Mrs. Bull. Tell her so. And, once more let me beg, that if I cannot come to you, you...

...still when I am bid. 3. While life is wasting, and souls are perishing, I may yet earnestly plead, with the Psalmist, ' Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.' I may sing with the poet, " My stock lies dead, and no increase Does my dull husbandry improve : Oh let...

...— this is peace !" " While life is wasting and souls are perishing, I may yet earnestly plead with the psalmist, ' Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name.' I may sing with the poet: My stock lies dead, and no increase Does my dull husbandry improve ; Oh ! let...

...spirit fails — The waters come in unto my soul : I sink in the deep mire where is no standing — Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name — Make me to know the things that are freely given to me of God — Not stagger through unbelief;...

...the opening of the prison to them that are bound, &c." Isaiah Ixi. 1, 2, 3, And David prayed, saying, "Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name. The Lord despiseth not his prisoners. The Lord executeth judgment for the oppressed, he giveth food...

...to deli ver him, or no deliverance can be effected ; hence (he Christian cries out in the languageof the Psalmist, " Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thee," that he may not only enjoy his liberty, but honour his deliverer. It appears from the context,...

...blindness, danger and misery are implied in the term as here used. In the 142d Psalm, 7th verse, we read, " Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise thy name, ix $v\axrts." The word is employed in a similar sense in Rev. ii. 10, "Behold, the devil shall cast...

...all laid on the earth. • The prison and the pit are continually used as metaphors in the Bible. " Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise thy name ;" Psa. xlii. 7. What prison was this ? We reply, it was a mere metaphor. See, also, the words of Isaiah...