 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1838 - 612 pages
...14. " And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins." 1 John 3. 5. " 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. 7. 11. " This... | |
 | 1841 - 586 pages
...that we should be called the Sons of God."ยงยง "If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in Heaven give his holy spirit to them that ask him."Uf "Not every one that saith to me Lord! Lord! shall enter the... | |
 | George Peck - 1842 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Henry Ware - 1847 - 468 pages
...let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally. If ye, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him ! " This it is to be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his... | |
 | John Brown - 1848 - 530 pages
...should not care for his children? "If ye, being evil," says our Lord, " know how to give good gifts to your children ; how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to them that ask him ? " " Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pities them that... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education - 1849 - 640 pages
...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... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1850 - 814 pages
...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1851 - 1018 pages
...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... | |
 | David Thomas - 1884 - 468 pages
...God is like that. At another time Christ said, " If ye being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things " to you. Human fatherhood and motherhood are only the dim and imperfect likeness of the Divine fatherhood... | |
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If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 
