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... one another in check - instances of interces- sory prayer in Scripture - how intercession is woven into the texture of the Lord's Praycr - testimony of the Prayer Book to PAGE this duty - grounds of the duty - we xiv Contents .
... one another in check - instances of interces- sory prayer in Scripture - how intercession is woven into the texture of the Lord's Praycr - testimony of the Prayer Book to PAGE this duty - grounds of the duty - we xiv Contents .
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... Scripture - the Psalms - stated prayer cannot be dispensed with , even where ejaculatory is practised this shown from the example of Our Lord , and from the comparison of prayers to respiration - encouragement , at the close of the ...
... Scripture - the Psalms - stated prayer cannot be dispensed with , even where ejaculatory is practised this shown from the example of Our Lord , and from the comparison of prayers to respiration - encouragement , at the close of the ...
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... Scripture characters with themselves , and argument thence arising in favour of their authenticity - Rehearsal before- hand of St. Peter's trial and fall - critical temptations occur but seldom - small ones not to be despised , as being ...
... Scripture characters with themselves , and argument thence arising in favour of their authenticity - Rehearsal before- hand of St. Peter's trial and fall - critical temptations occur but seldom - small ones not to be despised , as being ...
Page xxiv
... Scripture which implies this - What should be our intention in taking recreation , expressed in words- As to their form , Recreations must be innocent ( not necessarily useful ) —and innocent to us - experimental knowledge of our own ...
... Scripture which implies this - What should be our intention in taking recreation , expressed in words- As to their form , Recreations must be innocent ( not necessarily useful ) —and innocent to us - experimental knowledge of our own ...
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... Scripture implying that the day is the rudiment of the life - our provisions meted out by the day - our anxieties to be limited by the day - forethought allowed within the horizon of the day our purposes to be limited by the same ...
... Scripture implying that the day is the rudiment of the life - our provisions meted out by the day - our anxieties to be limited by the day - forethought allowed within the horizon of the day our purposes to be limited by the same ...
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Page 111 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
Page 83 - And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
Page 206 - For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness : all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Page 19 - Abide in Me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself except it abide in the vine, no more can ye except ye abide in Me. I am the Vine, ye are the branches. He that abideth in Me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit. For without Me ye can do nothing.
Page xiv - And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him ; but took the poor man's lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
Page xxxi - Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to meet him.
Page 187 - He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings; so the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
Page 324 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strewed : thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 34 - All may of Thee partake : Nothing can be so mean, Which with this tincture " for Thy sake " Will not grow bright and clean. A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine : Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine.
Page 142 - By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, "of whom it was said, 'That in Isaac shall thy seed be called/ "accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.