Prayers for the Use of Families: Or, The Domestic Minister's AssistantDodd & Mead, 1834 - 311 pages |
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... keep alive a sense of God and religion in the minds of men , that where it is neglected , I do not see how any family can , in reason , be esteemed a family of Christians , or , indeed , have any religion at all . - ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON ...
... keep alive a sense of God and religion in the minds of men , that where it is neglected , I do not see how any family can , in reason , be esteemed a family of Christians , or , indeed , have any religion at all . - ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON ...
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... valued and Eseful , as a sacred bequest to his descendants , this alone would keep him frem thinking he had abored in vain . PERCY.PLACE Aprik 1820 · · OLGUT ADVERTISEMENT . THE Author begs leave to offer a few vi PREFACE .
... valued and Eseful , as a sacred bequest to his descendants , this alone would keep him frem thinking he had abored in vain . PERCY.PLACE Aprik 1820 · · OLGUT ADVERTISEMENT . THE Author begs leave to offer a few vi PREFACE .
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... be deplored rather than an excellency to be admired , when ingenuity of thought or surprisingness of expression catches and keeps off the attention from devotion . There are young divines who not only err in preaching , by substituting.
... be deplored rather than an excellency to be admired , when ingenuity of thought or surprisingness of expression catches and keeps off the attention from devotion . There are young divines who not only err in preaching , by substituting.
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... keep the mind alive to them . With regard to the prayers for particular occasions - such as pertain to days of mourning , fasting , or thanksgiving ; and those which respect the begin- ning and end of the year - will draw forth no ...
... keep the mind alive to them . With regard to the prayers for particular occasions - such as pertain to days of mourning , fasting , or thanksgiving ; and those which respect the begin- ning and end of the year - will draw forth no ...
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... keep ourselves from falling- hold Thou us up , and we shall be safe . The burdens we feel would press our lives down to the ground - lay un- derneath us thine everlasting arms . Fears alarm us ; cares corrode us ; losses impoverish us ...
... keep ourselves from falling- hold Thou us up , and we shall be safe . The burdens we feel would press our lives down to the ground - lay un- derneath us thine everlasting arms . Fears alarm us ; cares corrode us ; losses impoverish us ...
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Page 53 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any : even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 66 - Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 234 - Thou crownest the year with thy goodness ; And thy paths drop fatness. They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness : And the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks ; The valleys also are covered over with corn ; They shout for joy, they also sing.
Page 63 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Page 215 - Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ : that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel...
Page 171 - 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 20 - For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
Page 184 - And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope : and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
Page 78 - Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.
Page 90 - ... who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness : by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray ; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.