 | 1836 - 498 pagina’s
...psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, I found that to the child of God ariseth light in the darkness ; that the ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths peace. When outward things went smoothly, my ungrateful spirit had not felt its need of divine... | |
 | Robert May - 1812 - 280 pagina’s
...superior pleasures of Religion. The haunts of the theatre lead down to the gates of eternal death ; but the ways of Religion " are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace." This city has once been visited by such a calamity : the circus has been burnt in this city : A theatre... | |
 | Philip Melvill - 1812 - 388 pagina’s
...he lived a life of faith in his adorable Redeemer, and died at last in the full assurance of hope. That the ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, was remarkably verified iu his experience : they, who knew him best, can testify this.... | |
 | Peter Smith - 1818 - 510 pagina’s
...sufficient to account for these extraordinary effects. With these exceptions, the general maxim in the text, that the ways of religion are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace, will be found consonant to the experience of mankind. As this proposition however... | |
 | 1818 - 896 pagina’s
...the life of any other man. But make, I entreat you, the experiment for yourselves, and you will find that the ' ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.' And if they be so in this world, what joys will they not • IPct. Ш. 10-12. See... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1831 - 516 pagina’s
...formed one of the "little flock" round our family altar? If, then, you have found on this short trial, that the ways of religion "are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace," be not content with only "tasting that the Lord is gracious," but "follow on to know"... | |
 | 1825 - 556 pagina’s
...amongst men. We may talk of the pleasures of one thing, and the pleasures of another; but you will find that the ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are paths of peace : those who walk in them enjoy that peace which the world can neither give... | |
 | Thomas Babington - 1826 - 294 pagina’s
...giving it a holy direction. Above all, he will make him sensible how conducive good principles are to pleasure; that not only he is the happy man, but...Solid and heartfelt delight which he has enjoyed in amusement^ sanctioned by the Divine approbation, with the anxiety and the fears which must attend guilty... | |
 | Thomas Babington - 1826 - 296 pagina’s
...strike, and you will see in his countenance and air a cordial assent to the scriptural representation, that " the ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace;" and that the wicked has no peace, but " is like the troubled sea, which cannot rest."... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1827 - 502 pagina’s
...comfort me and mine ; that we may be devoted to God, humble in ourselves, and give evidence to all around that ' the ways of religion are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths peace.' Thou hast given a free invitation to sinners to receive a Saviour, thy only beloved Son,... | |
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Nowhere should prayer be happier than in the domestic sanctuary, so as to teach those who join in it, that the ways of religion are "ways of pleasantness, and all her paths," paths of 
