 | James V. Watson - 1856 - 234 pages
...Holy Ghost is always willing and waiting to shed on the Church the spirit of revival ! " If ye then, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?" If a Church be destitute of a revival,... | |
 | John Macnaught - 1856 - 398 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... | |
 | 1858 - 624 pages
...spiritually discerned," the case is met on the other hand by the merciful assurance, "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?" But the consequence, to the missionary,... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter.) - 1859 - 168 pages
...of grief in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. ^rgin. See 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 Father give the Holy Spirit to those Luke xi. 1 3. that ask him. Hear me speedily, 0 Lord,... | |
 | Keepsake - 1859 - 180 pages
...according to his will, he heareth us. And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins. If ye, being evil, know how 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... | |
 | 1859 - 416 pages
...Hitherto ye have asked nothing," said the Saviour, "ask, that your joy may befall." Again — "if ye, being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give nis Holy Spirit to them that ask him 1" Thirdly, as a further improvement of the... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1859 - 698 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... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin - 1861 - 618 pages
...instinct to spy out the best things for your children, which you judge to be such, — and ' if ye know how to give good things to your children, how much more,' says Christ, 'shall your Father which is in heaven,' who to this very end was pleased to become a Father... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin - 1864 - 614 pages
...whilst he sits in heaven, considering what to give us that is good for us : Luke xi. 18. ' If ye then being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father,' &c. Thou askest of him some earthly thing, as thou thinkest it best for thy need,... | |
 | Thomas Goodwin - 1864 - 614 pages
...whilst he sits in heaven, considering what to give us that is good for us : Luke xi. 18, ' If ye then being evil, know how to give good things to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father,' &c. Thou askest of him some earthly thing, as thou thinkest it best for thy need,... | |
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If ye, being evil, know how 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. 
