 | Rev. Molesworth - 1837 - 424 pages
...do not cause open thanks to be given for our deliverance. Let us observe how base a temper it shews, to be craving and importunate till we get a mercy,...it, to regard him no more of whom we begged it. How rha.ll it be known that God hath shewn mercy, or that the prayers of the faithful prevailed ? How shall... | |
 | John Edward Nassau Molesworth - 1838 - 416 pages
...do not cause open thanks to be given for our deliverance. Let us observe how base a temper it shows, to be craving and importunate till we get a mercy,...it, to regard him no more of whom we begged it. How shall it be known that God hath shown mercy, or that the prayers of the faithful prevailed ? How shall... | |
 | Henry Stretton - Church work with the sick - 1852 - 444 pages
...do not cause open thanks to be given for our deliverance. Let us observe how base a temper it shows, to be craving and importunate till we get a mercy,...it, to regard Him no more of whom we begged it. How shall it be known that GOD hath showed mercy, or the prayers of the faithful prevailed ? How shall... | |
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... to take no notice of at all. But yet, if we will amend, let us consider how we obscure the glory of God, disparage the prayers of the Church, and show ourselves unworthy of the mercy received, if we do not cause open thanks to be given for our deliverance.... 