| George Peck - 1842 - 494 pages
...prayer, that the Holy Ghost fell upon them, on the day of Pentecost. And our Saviour says, "If ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." For this baptism of the Spirit we must... | |
| 1846 - 394 pages
...declaring the divine love, appealed directly to parental affection. " If ye, being evil," said he, " know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the holy spirit to them that ask him 1 " In like manner, we may ask, would an... | |
| Thomas William Jenkyn - 1846 - 298 pages
...One evangelist speaks of the readiness of God to give us " good things ; " and another says, " If ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." Man needs this Holy Spirit, and... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education - 1849 - 640 pages
...all its aspects, one of exceeding interest and encouragement. It verifies the general promise: "If ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." " Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that... | |
| Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1850 - 814 pages
...its aspects, one of exceeding interest and encouragement. It verifies the general promise : " If ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." "Pray ye the Lord of the harvest that he... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 1851 - 1016 pages
...the Father, and our blessed Saviour argues it as the testimony of God's love to us : " If ye, who are evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give his Spirit to them that ask him!" Now since the great sum and compendium of evangelical... | |
| Jeremy Taylor - 1852 - 342 pages
...14. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins. 1 John iii. 5. If ye, being evil, know to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him ? Matt. vii. 11. This is a faithful... | |
| Massachusetts Sabbath School Society - 1854 - 440 pages
...be any way of grief in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. I plead the promise of Jesus, if ye being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly MIC xi. 13. Father give the Holy Spirit to those that ask pg. cixiii. 7, him. Hear me speedily,... | |
| Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1847 - 490 pages
...He heareth usc. And ye know that He was manifested to take away pur sinsd. If ye, being evil, know to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask Him'? This is a faithful saying, and worthy... | |
| John MacNaught - 1856 - 366 pages
...applicability than the assurance given by our Saviour, " Every one that " asketh receiveth," * * * " If ye then being evil " know how to give good things to your children, how " much more shall your heavenly father give the Holy " Spirit to them that ask him." Nor can any thing be clearer than the... | |
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