 | Thomas Manton - Bible - 1840 - 478 pages
...from those objects with which we usually converse. Christ prayeth, " I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil of the world" (John xvii. 15): Christ knew what a temptation it is to live here in the midst of honours,... | |
 | Thomas Shepard - Congregational churches - 1853 - 684 pages
...you, if Christ's prayer can prevail, some are not ; (John xvii. 15,) " I pray not that thou wouldst take them out of the world, but keep them from the...If blood can prevail, it does. Gal. i. 4. O, look to this ; it may be some of you do not only neglect the Lord, all dies again ; O, it is the world ;... | |
 | William Bell Mackenzie - 1854 - 212 pages
...the way of temptation." This is the trial. How solemnly did the Lord pray, not that the Father would take them out of the world, but " keep them from the evil." Oh, the multitudes of souls ruined by the world's snares ! " I live in the flesh," is their boast.... | |
 | Conference on Christian Missions - 1860 - 472 pages
...our Divine abie.°Uon" Master that his people should be like leaven. I pray not that thou ihouldest take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil that it in it, are words which bear this construction. This practice moreover creates a new caste,... | |
 | The secretaries to the conference - Missions - 1860 - 454 pages
...our Divine able.ctlon" Master that his people should be like leaven. I pray not that thou ahouldest take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil that is in it, are words which bear this construction. This practice moreover creates a new caste,... | |
 | Missions - 1860 - 456 pages
...our Divine able?*1°"" Master that his people should be like leaven. I pray not that t/tou shouldest take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil that is in it, are words which bear this construction. This practice moreover creates a new caste,... | |
 | 1863 - 990 pages
...them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. I pray not that Thou shouldest take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil." Words like these, uttered as a dying prayer, testify the deepest apprehensions of the perils of the... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Labor and laboring classes - 1872 - 296 pages
...and for all who should believe on Him through His disciples' word : that His Divine Father would not take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil ? ," Take them out of the world ! " What would have become of the world if God's people had been taken... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - Christian life - 1874 - 182 pages
...you, and brought to your remembrance the prayer of the Saviour, — " I pray not that Thou shouldst take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil which is in the world,"— you turned away, sad and sorrowful. But it was the voice of God's Spirit,... | |
 | Thomas Bradbury - 1880 - 284 pages
...(Num. xxiii. 9). The Son prayed on the ground of accomplished redemption that His Father should not take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil in it (John xvii. 15). And the Spirit graciously works their sanctification and separation by endearing... | |
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Master that his people should be like leaven. I pray not that t/tou shouldest take them out of the world, but keep them from the evil that is in it, are words which bear this construction. This practice moreover creates a new caste, and raises up a secluded... 
