 We give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world ; beseeching thee, that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to...  Original Sin, Free-will, Grace, Regeneration, Justification, Faith, Good ... - Page 198by Henry John Todd - 1818 - 244 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1834 - 600 pages
...objections raised. The first is to the expression — ' We give thee hearty thanks for that it has pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world.' The second is to the phrase — ' We commit his body to the ground — earth to earth, ashes to ashes,... | |
 | Gathercoal Rabshakeh - 1835 - 334 pages
...certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life;'"—and part of the prayer following is thus:—" We give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased...sinful world, beseeching thee that it may please thee shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect." The design of all this is too plain to be mistaken... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - Christian life - 1835 - 550 pages
...and submit to thy providence, and revere thy justice, and magnify thy mercies, thy infinite mercies, that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world. Thy counsels are secret, and thy wisdom is infinite : with the same hand thou hast crowned him, and... | |
 | John Fry - 1835 - 508 pages
...God we pray in the Catholic Church in the British Isles, — "beseeching thee that it may please thee shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom." "After this," St. John tells us, in verse ninth, " I saw a great multitude which no man could number,"... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1835 - 300 pages
...kingdom of heaven ; " to the last prayer pronounced over our departed bodies,' " that it may please thee shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy 1 The intermediate state of the soul has occupied much of theattention of Christian Divines. The place... | |
 | Henry Joseph Monck Mason - 1836 - 168 pages
...of the faithful, after they are delivered from the " burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity } we " give thee hearty thanks for that it hath pleased...number of thine elect, and to hasten " thy kingdom ; that we, with all those who are " departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may " have OUT perfect... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1836 - 552 pages
...ages. Exactly answerable to all this, are those awful words in the prayer at the burial of the dead : " Beseeching thee, that it may please thee of thy gracious...the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom : that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Election (Theology). - 1836 - 506 pages
...ejus coetus membrum esse, et perpetuo mansurum. Catech. Heidel. in Syllog. Confess. p. 373. We beseech thee, that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness,...THE NUMBER OF THINE ELECT and to hasten thy kingdom : that WE, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect... | |
 | 1836 - 108 pages
...souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity ; we give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother (or sister) out of the miseries of this sinful world ; beseeching thee that it may please thee, of... | |
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