 | Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 pages
...repetitions, as the heathen do.; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be ye not therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. 9 After this manner therefore pray ye : Our Father which art in heaven,... | |
 | William Paley - 1812 - 586 pages
...Divine .worship. " When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do ; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye...them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before you ask him : after this manner therefore pray ye, Our Father" &fc. Matt. vi. 7 —... | |
 | Alden Bradford - 1813 - 544 pages
...expressions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speak8 ing.* Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye need, 9 before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray : Our Father, who art in the heav10 ens... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think that they shalt be heard for their mueh speaking. 8 Be not ye, therefore, like unto them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. b Hyfoerites, deeeitful persons, pretending to be very pioUs and devout,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pages
...internal motive;" therefore was the divine caution given, "when thou prayest, use no rain repetition as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." It is indispensable, then, that we be enabled to distinguish between the prayer which the... | |
 | 1815 - 294 pages
...words be few. When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye,...them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner, therefore, pray ye : Our Father which art in heaven... | |
 | Jesse Kersey - 1815 - 130 pages
...Almighty. " But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think, that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye...like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ve have need of before ye ask him." Matt. vii. 8. Tlfese cautions are sufficient to prove that though... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 622 pages
...synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." But this is not all ; our duties are thus rendered not vain only, but burdensome. When the... | |
 | John Macgowan - 1816 - 742 pages
...vi. 7, 8. ' But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as 'the heathen do; for they think that they shall be heard for ' their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them.' 8. This little attention that sometimes is paid to particular cases, may proceed from absence of thought,... | |
 | John Prior Estlin - 1818 - 422 pages
...prayer. " When ye pray," says He, " use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do, for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye...them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask Him. After this manner therefore pray ye," The form is lik_ vise plural, and... | |
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But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye, therefore, like unto them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. 
