...messenger refresheth only those who can say with David, " Like as the hart desireth the water brooks, so longeth my soul after thee O God ; my soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living God." The words of life and truth fall heavily on the stopped-up ear, coldly on the unregenerate heart. When...

...face for ever. 13 Blessed be the LORD GOD of Israel, world without end. Amen. PSALM 42. Quemadmodum. LIKE as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O GOD. 2 My soul is athirst for GOD, yea, even for the living GOD: when shall I come to appear before the...

...face for ever. 13 Blessed be the LORD GOD of Israel, world without end. Amen. PSALM 42. Quemadmodum. LIKE as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O GOD. 2 My soul is athirst for GOD, yea, even for the living GOD : when shall I .come to appear before the...

...as, though essentially different from each.bther, resemble, in some accidental circumstance, as, " Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God!"— Psalms. Synecdoche is the mention of a whole for a part, or of a part for the whole, as, " He received...

...42. Quemadmodum. LIKE as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longcth my soul after thee, O GOD. 2 My soul is athirst for GOD, yea, even for the living GOD : when shall 1 come to appear before the presence of GOD? 3 My tears have been my meat day and night...

...dwell in the tents of ungodliness; for the Lord God is a light and defence." And again, (Psalm xlii.) " As the hart desireth the waterbrooks, so longeth my...is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God. When shall I come to appear before the presence of God?" And (Psalm Ixiii.) "My soul thirsteth for...

...dwellings, and in quiet resting places . . 83 SERMON VII. THE BELIEVER LONGING AFTER GOD. PSALM xlii. 1. Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God . . . .98 SERMON VIII. THE BELIEVER GLORYING IN GOD. JKR. ix. 23, '24. Thus saith the Lord, Let not...

...is like them. It would be good to say incessantly with holy David, "My heart is athirst for God. — As the hart desireth the water-brooks, so longeth my soul after thee, O God." But there is no goodness in saying daily these words, if no such thirst is felt or desired in the heart;...

...congregation, " Like as the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, oh God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God : when shall I come to appear in the presence of God 1" He may earnestly desire (only still saying...

...blessedness of that hour, when, in his last and severest trial, the dying Christian can sincerely say, " My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living God, when shall I come to appear before the presence of God V I have selected " the first and great commandment,"...