Aids to Devotion: In Three Parts, Including Watts' Guide to PrayerLincoln and Edmands, 1831 - 279 pages |
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Page 50
... re- corded among the articles of thy sweet covenant , that I must receive light , and love , and strength , and joy , and happiness ; and art thou not a faithful God " to fulfil every one of those promises ? What 50 PLEADING .
... re- corded among the articles of thy sweet covenant , that I must receive light , and love , and strength , and joy , and happiness ; and art thou not a faithful God " to fulfil every one of those promises ? What 50 PLEADING .
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... light , and strength , and love from God . I am dead to the law , I am mortified to sin , I am crucified to the world , and all by the cross of Jesus my Saviour . I bid Satan get him behind me ; I renounce him and his works ; I will ...
... light , and strength , and love from God . I am dead to the law , I am mortified to sin , I am crucified to the world , and all by the cross of Jesus my Saviour . I bid Satan get him behind me ; I renounce him and his works ; I will ...
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... light as this is : it is a distin- guishing favor of thine , that among the works of thy creation , we should be placed in the rank of rational beings ; but it is more distinguishing good- ness , that we should be born of religious ...
... light as this is : it is a distin- guishing favor of thine , that among the works of thy creation , we should be placed in the rank of rational beings ; but it is more distinguishing good- ness , that we should be born of religious ...
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... light of nature teach us , that an affair of such solem nity and importance , which requires our utmost care to perform it well , cannot be done without some fore- thought . The skill of a Christian , in the inward exercise of grace ...
... light of nature teach us , that an affair of such solem nity and importance , which requires our utmost care to perform it well , cannot be done without some fore- thought . The skill of a Christian , in the inward exercise of grace ...
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... holy oratory in prayer , is one of these " good and perfect gifts that come from above , from God , the Father of lights and knowledge . " James i . 17 . K " The rule about the choice and use of proper ex- EXPRESSION IN PRAYER . 113.
... holy oratory in prayer , is one of these " good and perfect gifts that come from above , from God , the Father of lights and knowledge . " James i . 17 . K " The rule about the choice and use of proper ex- EXPRESSION IN PRAYER . 113.
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Page 241 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Page 241 - In this was manifested the love of GOD towards us, because that GOD sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved GOD, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Page 155 - For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
Page 231 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Page 167 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak : for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak. For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.
Page 228 - Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth ; and the heavens are the works of thine hands: They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
Page 244 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.
Page 232 - For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
Page 25 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Page 229 - Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance : behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.