The Testimony of Scripture to the Obligations and Efficacy of Prayer: More Especially of Prayer for the Gift of the Holy Spirit : in Three Discourses |
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... nature , along with the as- surance , in particular , that he is the hearer and answerer of prayer . In the case of our fallen race , it necessarily presupposes restoration to favor in the way which God has appointed , faith in the ...
... nature , along with the as- surance , in particular , that he is the hearer and answerer of prayer . In the case of our fallen race , it necessarily presupposes restoration to favor in the way which God has appointed , faith in the ...
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... nature shews itself here in its strongest op- position to what is good , that blessed agent helps their infirmities , making intercessions for them with groanings which cannot be uttered . The effect of prayer is in a peculiar manner to ...
... nature shews itself here in its strongest op- position to what is good , that blessed agent helps their infirmities , making intercessions for them with groanings which cannot be uttered . The effect of prayer is in a peculiar manner to ...
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... nature , and the advantage to be derived from them seems to be distant . We are apt to faint in prayer in consequence of losing sight of the worth and im- portance of the blessings petitioned for , and thus ceasing to desire them . We ...
... nature , and the advantage to be derived from them seems to be distant . We are apt to faint in prayer in consequence of losing sight of the worth and im- portance of the blessings petitioned for , and thus ceasing to desire them . We ...
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... nature . These the author takes the liberty of passing over , for two reasons first , that he chiefly writes for those who are more likely to be affected with experimental than with speculative doubts ; and secondly , that the ...
... nature . These the author takes the liberty of passing over , for two reasons first , that he chiefly writes for those who are more likely to be affected with experimental than with speculative doubts ; and secondly , that the ...
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... nature and privilege of prayer . He is there war- ranted to maintain , that prayer is most deeply concerned in the determination of all the purposes of God concerning his people ; that every believing supplication that has been In one ...
... nature and privilege of prayer . He is there war- ranted to maintain , that prayer is most deeply concerned in the determination of all the purposes of God concerning his people ; that every believing supplication that has been In one ...
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Page 72 - If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
Page 76 - ... that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints...
Page 13 - Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain : and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
Page 112 - And as for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the LORD: my spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out oi the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the LORD, from henceforth and for ever.
Page 130 - In the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.
Page 58 - Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.
Page 57 - I am the LORD'S"; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto the LORD, and surname himself by the name of Israel.
Page 124 - Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, The people in whose heart is my law; Fear ye not the reproach of men, Neither be ye afraid of their revilings. For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, And the worm shall eat them like wool: But my righteousness shall be for ever, And my salvation from generation to generation.
Page 54 - But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you : but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Page 56 - ... until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.