Aids to Devotion: In Three Parts, Including Watts' Guide to PrayerLincoln and Edmands, 1831 - 279 pages |
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... direction of our conduct and the success of our affairs . " " Prayer , ' says the same writer , ' is the application of want to Him who only can relieve it ; the voice of sin to Him who only can pardon it . It is the ur- gency of ...
... direction of our conduct and the success of our affairs . " " Prayer , ' says the same writer , ' is the application of want to Him who only can relieve it ; the voice of sin to Him who only can pardon it . It is the ur- gency of ...
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... direction , " Be careful for nothing ; but in every thing , by prayer and sup- plication , with thanksgiving , let your requests be made known unto God , " and he may fully expect the effect which that apostle describes " and the peace ...
... direction , " Be careful for nothing ; but in every thing , by prayer and sup- plication , with thanksgiving , let your requests be made known unto God , " and he may fully expect the effect which that apostle describes " and the peace ...
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... directions . 2. A similar objection is , that God is unchange- able , and prayer will not alter , nor reverse his pur- poses . We do not say that prayer really changes the purpose of God , though it may be sometimes so expressed in ...
... directions . 2. A similar objection is , that God is unchange- able , and prayer will not alter , nor reverse his pur- poses . We do not say that prayer really changes the purpose of God , though it may be sometimes so expressed in ...
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... direction by praying wherever they can be re- tired . Isaac's closet was a field . " He went out to meditate in the field at even - tide . " David's closet was his bed - chamber . " Commune with your own heart upon your bed , and be ...
... direction by praying wherever they can be re- tired . Isaac's closet was a field . " He went out to meditate in the field at even - tide . " David's closet was his bed - chamber . " Commune with your own heart upon your bed , and be ...
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... directions how often we ought to pray , farther than by gen- eral intimations , and the examples of others . We ought always to be in the spirit of prayer . But stated seasons for retired prayer , ought , at least , to be twice every ...
... directions how often we ought to pray , farther than by gen- eral intimations , and the examples of others . We ought always to be in the spirit of prayer . But stated seasons for retired prayer , ought , at least , to be twice every ...
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Page 241 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 241 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 155 - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Page 231 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Page 167 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak : for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 228 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 244 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 232 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 25 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 229 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.