The Admirable Nature of the Divine Oracles
Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons
Psalm 119:129
Your testimonies are wonderful: therefore does my soul keep them.


I. HIS PROFOUND ADMIRATION OF THE DIVINE ORACLES. They are "wonderful" in their —

1. Style and composition.

(1)  Wonderfully simple and plain.

(2)  Wonderfully grand and sublime.

(3)  Wonderfully concise and expressive.

2. Contents.

(1)  The most interesting records of facts.

(2)  The most astonishing displays of truth.

(3)  The most admirable and perfect rules of life.

(4)  The most animating promises,

(5)  The moat tremendous threatenings.

3. Efficacy.

(1)  Alarming the sinner.

(2)  Consoling the mourner.

(3)  Transforming the most degraded.

(4)  Supporting the believer through life and over death.

II. THEIR PRACTICAL INFLUENCE.

1. He treasured them up in his memory.

2. He kept them in exercises of faith.

3. He held them in constant esteem, and embraced them with earnest affection.

4. He kept them in obedient practices.

(Sketches of Four Hundred Sermons.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them.

WEB: Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.




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