 | William Huntington - 1815 - 750 pages
...answers granted to prayer are great helps and establishments to faith : " This is the confidence we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to...whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions we Vsired of him." *> 226 Thus faith is fed by the smiles of providence, and by the promises of grace.... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1815 - 422 pages
...in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us. And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions...desired of him. If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death.... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...written unto " you — that ye may believe on the name of the Son " of God. And this is the confidence we have in "him, that if we ask any thing according to...whatsoever we ask, we know that we " have the petitions we desired of him." In another part of the epistle, the same precept is repeated, « * 2 Cor. xiii.... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...written unto " you—that ye may believe on the name of the Son " of God. And this is the confidence we have in " him, that if we ask any thing according...whatsoever we ask, we know that we " have the petitions we desired of him." In another part of the epistle, the same precept is repeated, but the word God... | |
 | George Burder - 1818 - 332 pages
...eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God ; and this is the confidence that we have in Him, That, if we ask any thing according to...we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know we have the petitions that we desired of him." Now it is observable, that, in the same epistle, chap.... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Prayer - 1818 - 234 pages
...receive, that your joy may be full.z And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask E*/ thing according to his will, he heareth us : and if...whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions we desired of him. 1. We must earnestly pray for the pardon andforgweness of all our sins. Lord, we... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered1. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to...that we have the petitions that we desired of him f. Pray without ceasing*. Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving11. Building yourselves... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1844 - 638 pages
...receive of him, because we keep his commandments." (1 John iii. 22.) " And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to...that we have the petitions that we desired of him." (1 John v. 14, 15.) When has God ever said to his people, "Seek ye me in vain?" (Is. xlv. 19.) Every... | |
 | Sinclare Kelburn - Sermons - 1821 - 392 pages
...of prayer : " this," says the apostle, " is the confidence that we ' have in him, tJtat if we as/c any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and...that we have the petitions that we desired of him." — I. John, v. 15, 15. The apostle Paul prayed to the Lord Jesus to be delivered from some very severe... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 330 pages
...the saints, aceordjng to the will of God." Rom.'viii, 27. And again, " this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to...that we have the petitions that we desired of him." 1 John, v, 14, 15. No Christian wishes for the answer which the carnal Israelites received, He gave... | |
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And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us : and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 
