...gofpel of Chrift, I was often a moving fight to his forrowful father. Whence I muft needs conclude, that " it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth :" and furely it was good and neceffary for me. Being allowed only L. 16 Scots by my father for the...

...gofpel of Chrift, I was often a moving fight to " his forrowful father. Whence I muft needs conclude, that " it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth:" and furely it was good and necefTary for me. Being allowed only L. 1 6 Scots by my father for the laureation,...

...read the writings of the ancient Prophets, he would have found the Prophet Jeremiah $ obferving, " That it is good for a " man to bear the yoke in his youth ; he fitteth " alone, and keepeth filence, becaufe he hath " borne it upon him : He giveth his cheek...

...idlenefs. Though he be a rich man, and have a vineyard of his own, he requires them to labour. And " it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his " youth." The Grand Seignior of Turkey is always taught fome mechanical bufinefs. The Jews, whatever was their...

...ordinances of his Maker : thou wouldest have him run loose, like the wild ass in the desert: God tells him, It is good for a man, to bear the yoke in his youth; Lam. iii. 17: even the yoke of the divine precepts, the stooping whereunto is the best and truest of...

...weep, let us weep for our stubborness, Happy they who are used to be put into the fire betimes ! " It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. Some years ago, when 1 was at the Orphan-house, they told me they were going to yoke two steers together....

...down short of a sight and sense of the law and sin, is a bad piece of work, Timothy. Jeremiah says, " It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth ;" and to put " his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope." "-It is good that a man should...

...to enjoy the pleasures of religion. The remembrance of the sins of youth is painful in the extreme. It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth. Many when they grow up to years of maturity have to lament that they have laid a foundation in youth...

...And it is good for a man that he should both hope, and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth ; he sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him. No%v that which hath acted...

...needeth the less of the rod if the child be brought under discipline betimes. And thus, on many accounts, "it is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth." — Scougal. THE PROVIDENCE OF GOD. FROM ST. AUGUSTIN. WHEREFORE the true and supreme God, with his...