A Treatise on Prayer: Designed to Assist in the Devout Discharge of that DutyPollard & Converse; by Jonathan Leavitt, 182 Broadway, New-York; Wm. Williams, Utica; Tower and Hogan, and John Grigg, Philadelphia., 1828 - Devotional exercises - 302 pages |
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... truth , for the Father seeketh such to worship him . John iv , 23 . Prayer is not the mere posture of the body . - A man may . knéel till he wear out the stones ; like the Mahome- dans , he may put himself into every variety of posture ...
... truth , for the Father seeketh such to worship him . John iv , 23 . Prayer is not the mere posture of the body . - A man may . knéel till he wear out the stones ; like the Mahome- dans , he may put himself into every variety of posture ...
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... truth . It is not eloquence , but earnestness ; not the definition of helplessness , but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech , but com- punction of soul . It is the Lord save us , we perish , of drowning Peter ; the cry of faith ...
... truth . It is not eloquence , but earnestness ; not the definition of helplessness , but the feeling of it ; not figures of speech , but com- punction of soul . It is the Lord save us , we perish , of drowning Peter ; the cry of faith ...
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... truth of the declaration , God is our refuge and strength , a very present help in trouble . Ps . lxvi , 1 . When no other ear could hear but his , no other arm save , no other power relieve or help ; when we were destitute and almost ...
... truth of the declaration , God is our refuge and strength , a very present help in trouble . Ps . lxvi , 1 . When no other ear could hear but his , no other arm save , no other power relieve or help ; when we were destitute and almost ...
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... truth draw nearer to him , as a person with a boat - hook which he fixes to the shore is ready to think when he draws the boat , that he is moving the land towards him , when in fact he himself is coming nearer the land . But you quite ...
... truth draw nearer to him , as a person with a boat - hook which he fixes to the shore is ready to think when he draws the boat , that he is moving the land towards him , when in fact he himself is coming nearer the land . But you quite ...
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... truth , which , working by love , ever influences the soul to seek the presence of him we love . Is there not at the bottom of all these objections , a reason of this kind , I DISLIKE PRAYER - It puts a restraint upon all my ways- It ...
... truth , which , working by love , ever influences the soul to seek the presence of him we love . Is there not at the bottom of all these objections , a reason of this kind , I DISLIKE PRAYER - It puts a restraint upon all my ways- It ...
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Page 269 - I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love ; endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Page 55 - It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
Page 137 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 58 - Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters : who maketh the clouds his chariot ; who walketh upon the wings of the wind...
Page 269 - Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you. 16 Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.
Page 99 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 210 - And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Page 140 - MASTERS, give unto your servants that which is just and equal ; knowing that ye also have a Master in heaven.
Page 24 - Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law.
Page 235 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.