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... reason offend God ? I wonder if the practice of family prayer ever distressed any con- science . The omission of it has troubled many . It is admitted , I believe , to be the will of God that we should pray to him socially . The Lord's ...
... reason offend God ? I wonder if the practice of family prayer ever distressed any con- science . The omission of it has troubled many . It is admitted , I believe , to be the will of God that we should pray to him socially . The Lord's ...
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... reason in favor of the practice , this alone would be sufficient . I think it is Jay who says that a fa- mily without prayer is like a house without a roof— it has no protection . Who would like to live in such a house ? 3. I must Pray ...
... reason in favor of the practice , this alone would be sufficient . I think it is Jay who says that a fa- mily without prayer is like a house without a roof— it has no protection . Who would like to live in such a house ? 3. I must Pray ...
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... reason to complain of that interruption of the repose due to her . I suspect he enjoyed as good health , and was as vigorous through the day as we , though he rose at midnight to give thanks unto God , and prevented the dawning of the ...
... reason to complain of that interruption of the repose due to her . I suspect he enjoyed as good health , and was as vigorous through the day as we , though he rose at midnight to give thanks unto God , and prevented the dawning of the ...
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... then than they are now ; but it is my opinion that they felt more , and that is the reason they wept more . Now I must feel so as to weep ; not by constraint , but in spite of myself . I must be so PRACTICAL THOUGHTS . 27.
... then than they are now ; but it is my opinion that they felt more , and that is the reason they wept more . Now I must feel so as to weep ; not by constraint , but in spite of myself . I must be so PRACTICAL THOUGHTS . 27.
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... reason it is not accepted . Many a Christian hinders his prayer by indulg- ing in that species of unbelief , which surmises that what he asks is too great a thing for God to bestow on one so unworthy as he is . He forgets that the ...
... reason it is not accepted . Many a Christian hinders his prayer by indulg- ing in that species of unbelief , which surmises that what he asks is too great a thing for God to bestow on one so unworthy as he is . He forgets that the ...
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Page 66 - Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.
Page 197 - Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
Page 29 - Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might come even to his seat ! I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Page 67 - UNTO thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. 2 Behold, even as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress, even so our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until he have mercy upon us.
Page 135 - For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us...
Page 123 - Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give ; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
Page 193 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; The labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 47 - The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly ; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind : neither as being lords over God's heritage, but...
Page 59 - I confess to Almighty God, to blessed Mary ever Virgin, to blessed Michael the Archangel, to blessed John the Baptist, to the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, and to all the Saints, that I have sinned exceedingly in thought, word and deed, through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.
Page 28 - And I said, This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember the works of the LORD : surely I will remember thy wonders of old.