 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 sayfa
...communion with God, than in days and months of sinful indulgence. We can say with David, ': A day in thy courts is better than a thousand ; I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of wickedness." A good hope through grace, a knowledge... | |
 | 1814
...fainteth for the courts of the Lord ; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God."- — " For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness §." If these were the feelings and desires... | |
 | 1813 - 996 sayfa
...give ear, O GoJ of Jacob." Look with pity on the darkness of my soul, now banished from thy house; " for a day in thy courts is better than a thousand; I had rather be only a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell" in state and splendour " in the teats of... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 sayfa
...tabernacles, O Lord of Hosts ! Blessed are they that dwell in thy house ; they will be still praising thee. For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." Ps. xxvii. 4. xxxiv. 4. 11. Here it... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 sayfa
...sometimes has in God, he prefers far before all the pleasures of sin, Psalm Ixxxiv. 10. " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness." A saint thus prefers God before all things... | |
 | John Pawson - 1809 - 434 sayfa
...in their own minds. He expresses the highest regard for the worship of God, when he says, " A day in thy courts is better than a thousand: I had rather be a door-keeper," or I had rather sit. upon the door threshold, I had rather sit in the lowest' place, or be employed... | |
 | 1810 - 724 sayfa
...dying testimony to the truth and power of the gospel. On the Lord's day, July CO, 1808, he finished his public testimony in Hammersmith. In the morning...was founded on these remarkable words of Job, ch. 2. 1 0. " What ! Shall we receive good at the hands of the Lord, and shall •we not receive evil ?" How... | |
 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 600 sayfa
...xxvii. 4. and when they obtain communion with him, they all say as one did, Psal. Ixxxiv. 10. A day in thy courts is better than a thousand : I had rather be a door-keeper in the home of niy God, than to dwell in the tents of -wickedness. He was a great man, and a great saint,... | |
 | William Giles - 1811 - 268 sayfa
...thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts ! My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord — For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.' But should it be otherwise; should he... | |
 | Henry Venn - 1811 - 464 sayfa
...and the use of them much enjoyed. '' How I love thy law ! it is my meditation all the day. One day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God, than dwell in the tents of ungodliness." How beneficial to the souls of men their... | |
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For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 
