The Closet: Being an Aid to Private Devotion ; Containing Directions and Helps for Reading the Scriptures, Meditations, Self-examination, and PrayerJ.B. Dow, 1841 - 144 pages |
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... ourselves to the care of a covenant - keeping God , when we retire to rest . It is also very suitable , when we sus- pend our worldly employments , in the mid- dle of the day , to refresh our bodies , to renew our visit to the fountain ...
... ourselves to the care of a covenant - keeping God , when we retire to rest . It is also very suitable , when we sus- pend our worldly employments , in the mid- dle of the day , to refresh our bodies , to renew our visit to the fountain ...
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... ourselves . I know of but two exceptions . One is , when the thing we ask is not agreeable to the will of God . The other is , when the Lord delays to an- swer our prayers for the trial of our faith . The obstacles which exist in ourselves ...
... ourselves . I know of but two exceptions . One is , when the thing we ask is not agreeable to the will of God . The other is , when the Lord delays to an- swer our prayers for the trial of our faith . The obstacles which exist in ourselves ...
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... ourselves deeply before God , he will not answer our prayers . 3. We may not desire the things we ask that God may be glorified , but that it may minister to our own gratification . " Ye ask , and receive not , because ye ask amiss ...
... ourselves deeply before God , he will not answer our prayers . 3. We may not desire the things we ask that God may be glorified , but that it may minister to our own gratification . " Ye ask , and receive not , because ye ask amiss ...
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... ourselves seriously and immediately to the secret devotions of the morning . For the first of these it seems exceedingly natural . There are so many things that may suggest a great variety of pious reflec- tions and ejaculations , which ...
... ourselves seriously and immediately to the secret devotions of the morning . For the first of these it seems exceedingly natural . There are so many things that may suggest a great variety of pious reflec- tions and ejaculations , which ...
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... ourselves , and sometimes to our heavenly Father , in the natural expressions of joy and thankful- ness . Permit me , sir , to add , that , if we find our hearts in such a frame at our first awaking , even that is just matter of praise ...
... ourselves , and sometimes to our heavenly Father , in the natural expressions of joy and thankful- ness . Permit me , sir , to add , that , if we find our hearts in such a frame at our first awaking , even that is just matter of praise ...
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Popular passages
Page 2 - And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
Page 12 - AND he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint...
Page 53 - By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
Page 58 - Though the Lord be high, yet hath he respect unto the lowly: but the proud he knoweth afar off.
Page 22 - And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them ? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily.
Page 24 - And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel: 46 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life...
Page 90 - And let my God, my Saviour go? 3 Call me away from flesh and sense, One sovereign word can draw me thence; I would obey the voice divine, And all inferior joys resign.
Page 54 - Search me, O God, and know my heart ; try me, and know my thoughts ; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Page 88 - Here at that cross where flows the blood That bought my guilty soul for God; Thee, my new Master now I call, And consecrate to thee my all.
Page 50 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God...