A Treatise on Prayer: Designed to Assist in the Devout Discharge of that Duty |
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... continually and more fervently ; to aim at living in abiding communion with the Father of Spirits . Salisbury Square , Nov. 18 , 1819 . E. B. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTEENTH EDITION . THE Author has availed PREFACE . ix.
... continually and more fervently ; to aim at living in abiding communion with the Father of Spirits . Salisbury Square , Nov. 18 , 1819 . E. B. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FOURTEENTH EDITION . THE Author has availed PREFACE . ix.
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... continual practice , whose whole life , is a drawing near to God . The command and the promise belong to them . Call upon me in the day of trouble : I will deliver thee , and thou shalt glorify me . Psa . 1. 15. Indeed , what Christian ...
... continual practice , whose whole life , is a drawing near to God . The command and the promise belong to them . Call upon me in the day of trouble : I will deliver thee , and thou shalt glorify me . Psa . 1. 15. Indeed , what Christian ...
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... continually experiencing the bounty and goodness of a friend whom he has never seen , will rejoice in beholding his face , so will it be to the devout believer . He will enter heaven with the conviction , In thy presence is fulness of ...
... continually experiencing the bounty and goodness of a friend whom he has never seen , will rejoice in beholding his face , so will it be to the devout believer . He will enter heaven with the conviction , In thy presence is fulness of ...
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... continual sighs . " . Hence we find in the Liturgy various prayers expressly for the aid of the Holy Spirit . " Grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things , direct and rule our hearts . " " Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the ...
... continual sighs . " . Hence we find in the Liturgy various prayers expressly for the aid of the Holy Spirit . " Grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things , direct and rule our hearts . " " Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the ...
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... continually on our minds as a motive for continual watchfulness , and a source of the greatest comfort . Thou God seest me ! should be written on the walls of our closet ; or , rather , deeply engraven on our hearts . Before an earthly ...
... continually on our minds as a motive for continual watchfulness , and a source of the greatest comfort . Thou God seest me ! should be written on the walls of our closet ; or , rather , deeply engraven on our hearts . Before an earthly ...
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Abba Father Ahitophel Amalek Apostle beseech thee Christ Jesus Christian church communion communion of saints confess consider David desire devo devotion distractions divine duty dwell earth eternal evil expression faith family prayer family worship Father favour feel flesh forgive friends fulness gift give glory God's gracious grant happy hath hear heart heaven heavenly Holy Ghost humble intercession Isaiah Israel Jesus Christ Jews John xvii kingdom labour live Lord Jesus Christ Lord's Lord's Prayer Lord's Supper Luke Matt means of grace mediation mercy mind minister morning neglect ness observes obtain peace petitions praise pray presence private prayer privilege promises Psalm public worship racter remember righteousness sabbath salvation Satan Saviour says Scriptures seek shew sinners sins soul spirit of prayer strength supplication thanksgiving thine things thou hast throne of grace thy Holy Spirit tion truth wants word worldly
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Page 295 - And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness ; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity ; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful...
Page 53 - At that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you: for the Father Himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
Page 226 - And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them ? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Page 100 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 226 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Page 301 - For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: that ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; holding forth the word of life...
Page 291 - To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
Page 220 - The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, To all that call upon him in truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: He also will hear their cry, and will save them.
Page 171 - But Moses' hands were heavy ; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon ; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side ; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
Page 238 - REMEMBER now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them...