 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 pages
...injure you, but he cannot keep you from prayer. Observe the power of prayer in the example of Elijah. He was " a man subject to like passions as we are, and...gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." It MAKES tfs FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK. "I reckon it," says Bennett, " matter of common experience... | |
 | 1881 - 1046 pages
...effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as vx are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain...gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.' The Holy Ghost, anticipating that we should explain away the Prophet's intercessional triumphs on the... | |
 | 1847 - 662 pages
...fervent prayer of a righteous man " (thank God, and have we not many "righteous men?") " availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are;...years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." True prayer is never unanswered. The particular... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 340 pages
...that open and shut the natural clouds, and cause them either to give out or withhold their influences. "Elias was a man subject to like passions, as we are,...years and six months ; and he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit," Jam. v. 17. God has subjected the works... | |
 | Christopher Benson - 1822 - 472 pages
...will of the Lord, knowing that " the effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are,...it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the... | |
 | 1819 - 996 pages
...emboldened the prophet to pray as he did : '• Elias was a man subject to like passions as we arc, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and...earth, by the space of three years and six months. And be prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit."} An example this... | |
 | 1822 - 522 pages
...that when Elias, a man subject to like passions as we are, prayed earnestly that it might not rain, it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months ; while the Father of the Faithful himself was not heard, in his fervent intercession that the Elements... | |
 | 1823 - 542 pages
...fervent effectual prayer of a righteous man RR availeth much," ho refere to the prayers of Elias, " who prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained...gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." (Ver. 17, 18.) Saving the sick and raising him up, cannot be understood spiritualty as signifying the... | |
 | 1822 - 500 pages
...effectual fervent prayer of a rightoua man availeth much ;" and by way of example, he says, • Elms was a man subject to like passions as we are, and...earth by the space of three years and six months." The New Testamant is'like•-.!-!• full of instruction on this subject. Our Saviour prayed on many... | |
 | 1823 - 880 pages
...countrymen : if at the earnest prayer of Elias, " a man subject to like passions " with ourselves, it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months, faut when be prayed the heavens again gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit ; what might... | |
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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... 
