| Christian - 1841 - 998 pages
...blood of Christ to the conscience, and this is the exhortation of Jesus, ' If your fathers, being evil, and in the sweat of thy face thou shalt eat bread.' The earth shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?' TwKJTY-ElGHTH DAY. MORNING.... | |
| William Goode - 1842 - 530 pages
...humble-minded inquirer after the truth ; for if they who are evil, as our blessed Lord reminds us, know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more shall our heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. Nor will it be any cause for scepticism... | |
| William Goode - 1842 - 708 pages
...humble-minded enquirer after the truth ; for if they who are evil, as our blessed Lord reminds us, know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more shall our heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. Nor will it be any cause for scepticism... | |
| 1843 - 726 pages
...weakness as an excuse. Recollect another promise, with which we will conclude, — " If earthly parents know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give his Holy Spirit to them that ask?" " Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek,... | |
| 1843 - 718 pages
...weakness as an excuse. Recollect another promise, with which we will conclude,—" If earthly parents know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give his Holy Spirit to them that ask?" " Ask, and ye shall receive ; seek,... | |
| J. Victor Wilson - 1846 - 344 pages
...bread, he will Give a stone ? Or if he ask a fish, will Give him a serpent? If men, then, being evil, know how to Give Good Gifts unto their children, HOW MUCH MORE shall our Father which is in heaven, [who is Good,] GIVE Good Things to them that ask Him.'— Mat.... | |
| J. Victor Wilson - 1846 - 334 pages
...bread, he will Give a stone ? Or if he ask a fish, will Give him a serpent? If men, then, being evil, know how to Give Good Gifts unto their children, HOW MUCH MORE shall our Father which is in heaven, [who is Good,] GIVE Good Things to them that ask Him.' — Mat.... | |
| William Cooke - 1851 - 102 pages
...11. 28. How may we obtain the help of the Holy Spirit? By prayer, for God has said that if parents know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more will he give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him 1 — Luke xi. 13. SECTION VII. SALVATIOX — THE... | |
| George Smalridge (bp. of Bristol.) - 1852 - 602 pages
...the wisdom of God ; to suspect Matt. vU. the latter, is to impeach his goodness. If men, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more shall our Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him ? Good, not only to them... | |
| George Edward Lynch Cotton (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1853 - 188 pages
...lives. But we need not doubt that He is given to those who pray for His help ; for if men " being evil know how to give good gifts unto their children, how much more shall our heavenly Father give the HolySpirit to them that ask Him?"c Therefore, trusting to this promise,... | |
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