A Discourse Upon Wandring Thoughts in Prayer, Shewing the Causes and Remedies Thereof. By Abra. Mackbeth, E.A.P.J. Downing, 1713 - 48 pages |
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... Performance thereof is attended with Difficulties and Difcourage- ments ; notwithstanding which it is highly neceflary to perform this great and excellent Duty , in the best and most perfect Manner that ever we can . And it will be infi ...
... Performance thereof is attended with Difficulties and Difcourage- ments ; notwithstanding which it is highly neceflary to perform this great and excellent Duty , in the best and most perfect Manner that ever we can . And it will be infi ...
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... Performance of this Duty , we perform it heavily and without any Vigour and earnest Application of Mind . So our At- tention languifheth , and Wandring Thoughts very easily infinuate them- felves into our cold and unaffected Hearts ...
... Performance of this Duty , we perform it heavily and without any Vigour and earnest Application of Mind . So our At- tention languifheth , and Wandring Thoughts very easily infinuate them- felves into our cold and unaffected Hearts ...
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... Performances in thy Service , ⚫ let thy good Spirit help my Infirmi- ties ; and be Thou pleafed graciouf- ly to encourage me in ufing my utmoft Endeavours , to worship Thee ftill with more steady Atten- tion and more fervent Zeal . And ...
... Performances in thy Service , ⚫ let thy good Spirit help my Infirmi- ties ; and be Thou pleafed graciouf- ly to encourage me in ufing my utmoft Endeavours , to worship Thee ftill with more steady Atten- tion and more fervent Zeal . And ...
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... go on refolutely in the Performance of your Duty , as foon as poffibly you can . For fuch im- pure Thoughts are very apt to gain Ground of any one that will stand to B5 dif dispute with them , and argue against the sin , in PRATER . 33.
... go on refolutely in the Performance of your Duty , as foon as poffibly you can . For fuch im- pure Thoughts are very apt to gain Ground of any one that will stand to B5 dif dispute with them , and argue against the sin , in PRATER . 33.
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... Performance of it . But we must likewife be careful to exercise that Degree of Faith we have already obtained , in the Time of Pray- er . We must then firmly and fteadily believe , that if we ask any thing accord- ing to the Will of God ...
... Performance of it . But we must likewife be careful to exercise that Degree of Faith we have already obtained , in the Time of Pray- er . We must then firmly and fteadily believe , that if we ask any thing accord- ing to the Will of God ...
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affault Affiftance Affliction affured againſt altho arife befeech Bleffed Caufes Cauſes CHAP Chapter Chriftians Comfort Converfation Converfion Corruption Defire Devil Devotion difcouraged Difpofition divine Grace divine Providence dring Thoughts efpecially elfe endeavour eternal Faith Father feen felves fhall fee fhould fiery Darts fince finful Firſt fome fpiritual ftians ftill ftir fuch Ghoſt Glory Grace Habit of Mind hath heartily Hearts Heaven heavenly Holy Ghoft Holy Ghoſt holy Spirit increaſe ject Kingdom of Heaven lay afide lefs likewife Lord and Saviour Lord Jefus Chrift Love Luft maketh Means of Grace meditate Mental Prayer Merits of Chrift moft mortified moſt muft muſt natural neceffary Number obferve Oral Prayer Perfon Performance pious pray prefent ptation Publick refift Remedies Repentance ruption Salvation ſhall Souls ſtrive temporal Temptations Thee thefe thereof things thofe Thoughts in Prayer troubled true truly Wandring Thoughts whofe World worship
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Page 30 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds ; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him...
Page 22 - If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering: for he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind, and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Page 4 - The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; He hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all that mourn...
Page 40 - we look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which are not feen; for the things which are feen, are temporal ; but the things which are not feen, are eternal, 2 Cor.
Page 29 - Thou haft prepared for us to walk in ; through Jefus Chrift our Lord, to Whom, with Thee and the Holy Ghoft, be all honour and Glory, world without end.
Page 19 - That if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him...
Page 4 - GOmfort ye, comfort ye my people, faith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerufalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplifhed, that her iniquity is pardoned ; for fhe hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her luis.
Page 22 - Jam.L 5, if any of you lack Wifdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all Men liberally, and upbraideth not, and it fhalt v.
Page 38 - And if we know that, he heareth us, whatfoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we defired of him.
Page 4 - might be called trees of righteoufnefs, the planting of " the Lord, that he might be glorified.