 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - Quakers - 1847 - 500 pages
...he ask a fish will give him a serpent? If you," said He, " being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him." But this asking must be with frequency and fervency of spirit, from a sense... | |
 | James Hamilton - Prayer - 1847 - 184 pages
...his soul, but distressed by reason of darkness ? " If ye 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 ?" If any one be in the outset of his religious inquiries, he will feel a special... | |
 | John Wesley - Bible - 1847 - 748 pages
...shall ask an egg, will he give him u 13 scorpion? If ye then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spjrit to them that ask him ? 14 f And he was casting out a devil, and it was dumb: and when the devil... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education - 1849 - 640 pages
...all its aspects, one of exceeding interest and encouragement. It verifies the general promise: "If ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." " Pray ye the Lord of the harvest... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Church and education - 1850 - 814 pages
...its aspects, one of exceeding interest and encouragement. It verifies the general promise : " If ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest... | |
 | Ichabod Smith Spencer - Christian life - 1851 - 440 pages
...without the Holy Spirit." " Madam, the text is plain, ' if ye being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to — " " Bat I am not one ol his children, sir." " The text does not say, to his children, my dear... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Church of England - 1851 - 1018 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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...that Holy Spirit whose aid everyone may have who seeks : "If ye being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him ? " Be ye not therefore conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the... | |
 | 1852 - 678 pages
...a mercy, to one so vile as me, that it is written, " If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him ? " It is intimate intercourse with this Spirit that will quicken us to run the... | |
 | John Cumming - Miracles - 1852 - 660 pages
...give you worse than you ask, but always better. " If ye, 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." Do not think that God's delay is unwillingness : his willingness is infinite... | |
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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! 
