 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...serpent; or, when he asks an egg, would give him a scorpion? If you, therefore, bad as you are, can give good things to your children; how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit, to them that ask him? 14. — Again, he was expelling a demon, which caused dumbness; and when the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Christian life - 1835 - 550 pages
...us. 1 John v. 14. And ye know, that he was manifested to take away our sins. 1 John iii. 5. If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children ; how much more shall your Father, which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him 1 Matt. vii. 11. This... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Theology - 1835 - 482 pages
...the Father, and our blessed Saviour argues it as the testimony of God's love to us : " If ye, who are evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give his Spirit to them that ask him!" Now since the great sum and compendium... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1836 - 520 pages
...we are exhorted to pray for it. "If ye (says the Lord), being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children ; how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" And conformably with this the first great effusion of the Spirit was given in... | |
 | Bible - 1837 - 324 pages
...ask bread, will he give him a stone ; or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent ? If ye, then being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him. 18: 19. Again; 1 say unto... | |
 | Gerhard Tersteegen - Devotional literature - 1837 - 332 pages
...last mentioned Gospel, our dear Saviour says, " If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly father give the Holy Spirit to him that asks him !" Now observe here, that not one individual is excluded. All that shall ask their... | |
 | Matthew (st) - 1837 - 686 pages
...Or, that would give him a serpent, if he asks for a fish ? 1 1 If therefore you, wicked as you are, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will ver. 6. Matt. x. 11, 14. xi. 25. Acts xiii. 45, 46. Phil. in. 2. Prov. ix. 7. v. 7. Matt. xxi. 22.... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1838 - 612 pages
...us." 1 John 5. 14. " And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins." 1 John 3. 5. " If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Father, which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?" Matt. 7. 11. " This... | |
 | 1841 - 538 pages
...dispense to you every blessing : for, said Jesus, " if ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts lo your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him !'' And if any of you, dear hearers, are ready to say, 'But we have greatly transgressed... | |
 | William Webb Ellis - Sermons, English - 1838 - 352 pages
...valuable boon from a parent or a benefactor. " If ye, then, being evil, know how " to give good gifts unto your children, how " much more will your Heavenly Father give the " Holy Spirit unto them that ask him ?" But you must pray with faith ; that is, with a firm belief that God, for... | |
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If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him! 
