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 - 302 pages |
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... knowledge of the duty , but the grace of prayer which is the great thing that we should desire to at- tain . He has often had occasion , in the course of his writing this book , to feel that it is much easier to know how to pray , than ...
... knowledge of the duty , but the grace of prayer which is the great thing that we should desire to at- tain . He has often had occasion , in the course of his writing this book , to feel that it is much easier to know how to pray , than ...
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... knowledge , or the monarch of a mighty empire . A Chris- tian justly reckons it no small privilege to be permitted , for a season , to associate with a person of peculiar piety And if , while the greatest good may be obtained from a ...
... knowledge , or the monarch of a mighty empire . A Chris- tian justly reckons it no small privilege to be permitted , for a season , to associate with a person of peculiar piety And if , while the greatest good may be obtained from a ...
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... knowledge , we should doubtless have thought it a high honour to be in his company , and , like Mary , to sit at the feet of Jesus , and hear his words . This privilege was counted the more valuable in sea- sons of difficulty . When any ...
... knowledge , we should doubtless have thought it a high honour to be in his company , and , like Mary , to sit at the feet of Jesus , and hear his words . This privilege was counted the more valuable in sea- sons of difficulty . When any ...
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... KNOWLEDGE OF OUR WANTS . - As the nee- dy only will stoop to ask for alms , so a real , deep , and abiding sense of our indigence , is the first spring of a true and earnest desire to obtain help from God . -The prodigal son thought not ...
... KNOWLEDGE OF OUR WANTS . - As the nee- dy only will stoop to ask for alms , so a real , deep , and abiding sense of our indigence , is the first spring of a true and earnest desire to obtain help from God . -The prodigal son thought not ...
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... knowledge , power , eloquence , talent , and earthly glory , or any of the good things of this life , they may or may not be good for me : but if I have the grace of prayer , the heart to draw near to God , it is unmixed , unqualified ...
... knowledge , power , eloquence , talent , and earthly glory , or any of the good things of this life , they may or may not be good for me : but if I have the grace of prayer , the heart to draw near to God , it is unmixed , unqualified ...
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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.