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... gives an intense reality to the several Acts of Confession , Prayer , and Praise . III . THEIR BREADTH AND COMPREHENSIVE- NESS . The worshipper is not permitted to be ab- sorbed in the thought of his own personal needs , but is in his ...
... gives an intense reality to the several Acts of Confession , Prayer , and Praise . III . THEIR BREADTH AND COMPREHENSIVE- NESS . The worshipper is not permitted to be ab- sorbed in the thought of his own personal needs , but is in his ...
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... gives it its chief beauty and serviceableness . There is no reason to believe that Bishop Andrewes ever contemplated the publication of these Devotions , as the title - page of the first English translation ( that of Richard Drake in ...
... gives it its chief beauty and serviceableness . There is no reason to believe that Bishop Andrewes ever contemplated the publication of these Devotions , as the title - page of the first English translation ( that of Richard Drake in ...
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... give Thy strength unto Thy servant , and help the son of Thine handmaid . Show some token upon me for good , that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed , because Thou , Lord , hast holpen me and comforted me . + ORDER OF EVENING ...
... give Thy strength unto Thy servant , and help the son of Thine handmaid . Show some token upon me for good , that they who hate me may see it and be ashamed , because Thou , Lord , hast holpen me and comforted me . + ORDER OF EVENING ...
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... give Thee thanks , O Lord . Evening is at hand , make it bright unto me . As day has its evening , so also has life ; the even of life is age , age has overtaken me , make it bright unto me . Cast me not away in the time of age ...
... give Thee thanks , O Lord . Evening is at hand , make it bright unto me . As day has its evening , so also has life ; the even of life is age , age has overtaken me , make it bright unto me . Cast me not away in the time of age ...
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... give me to seek Thee early , for Thy glory , and for Thy service . I would commend to Thee , O Lord , The Creation , all in affliction , all in error , all in sin , the race of man , and all in prosperity , and all in truth , and all in ...
... give me to seek Thee early , for Thy glory , and for Thy service . I would commend to Thee , O Lord , The Creation , all in affliction , all in error , all in sin , the race of man , and all in prosperity , and all in truth , and all in ...
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Page 193 - COME, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire. Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost thy seven-fold gifts impart. Thy blessed Unction from above, Is comfort, life, and fire of love. Enable with perpetual light The dulness of our blinded sight.
Page 172 - For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I do this day: The father to the children shall make known thy truth.
Page 71 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 174 - Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
Page 260 - OUT of the deep have I called unto thee, O LORD ; LORD, hear my voice. 0 let thine ears consider well the voice of my complaint. If thou, LORD, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss; O LORD, who may abide it ? For there is mercy with thee: therefore shalt thou be feared.
Page 212 - Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel...
Page 169 - LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid : thou hast loosed my bonds.
Page 1 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 171 - What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Page 32 - One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.