| George Barrell Cheever - History - 1853 - 392 pages
...the special promise of Christ is given forth to just this duty, just this labor of social prayer. " Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Where Christ is, there is life, there a blessing. The mere form of a social gathering... | |
| Advent - 1853 - 382 pages
...places where I record my name, I will come and bless thee : I will make the place of my feet glorious: Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them? moments rich in blessing, when, especially at the holy altar, you have felt your... | |
| 1854 - 400 pages
...as touching anything they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven ; for where two or three are gathered in My name, there am I in the midst of them." What can God deny to the weeping and supplications of a prostrate, praying church... | |
| Bible Christians - 1854 - 978 pages
...the special promise of Christ is given forth to just this duty, just this labour of social prayer. " Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Where Christ. is, there is life, there a blessing. The mere form of a social gathering... | |
| 1855 - 1450 pages
...however, specially present in his house, and among those who have assembled to worship him. He has said, '-Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." The Lord dwelleth in Zion. Those who enter God's house deliberately go into his... | |
| Elizabeth Charles - 1856 - 378 pages
...of believing men. Nay, over one such, Satan cannot prevail. Hearest thou not what the Lord saith, ' Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I?' Where so great a Church, then, is bound together by such love, must He not surely be? I have a pledge... | |
| William Annan - Psalmody - 1859 - 220 pages
...presence and blessing of her Divine Master, "Lo I am with you always, even to the end of the world ; and where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I," &e. ; and has a most clear and express title to expect the aids of the Holy Spirit, certainly to say... | |
| Joseph Addison Alexander - Presbyterian Church - 1860 - 430 pages
...In some sense, then, he is on earth — he is here — if we are indeed gathered in his name. " For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I present in the midst of them." Here then is still another answer to the question : " Where is he that... | |
| Sermons, English - 1864 - 694 pages
...our 20. churches are not destitute of promises, forasmuch Matt, iviii. as our Saviour Christ saith, Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the middes among them. A great number therefore coming to church together in the name of Christ have... | |
| Ernst von Bunsen - Apocryphal books (New Testament) - 1865 - 502 pages
...to a fuller knowledge and a more universal acknowledgment of ' the truth as it is in Jesus,' who has said, ' where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them,' and who has promised to be with His Church ' alway, even unto the end of the world.''... | |
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