The Family Prayer Book: Or, the Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments, and Other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of AmericaThomas N. Stanford, 1855 - 800 pages |
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... minister from influencing the devotions of the congrega- tion . They serve as a standard of faith and practice , impressing on both minister and people , at every performance of public wor- ship , the important doctrines and duties of ...
... minister from influencing the devotions of the congrega- tion . They serve as a standard of faith and practice , impressing on both minister and people , at every performance of public wor- ship , the important doctrines and duties of ...
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... minister to the throne of God . A person who thus sincerely offers his devotions according to the liturgy of the Church may be satisfied that he is worship- ping God " with the spirit and with the un- derstanding also . " The more ...
... minister to the throne of God . A person who thus sincerely offers his devotions according to the liturgy of the Church may be satisfied that he is worship- ping God " with the spirit and with the un- derstanding also . " The more ...
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... minister to alter the language of prayers universally admired for their correctness , and their simplicity— prayers in the language of which , the most eminent divines , and the first scholars in every age have esteemed it a privilege ...
... minister to alter the language of prayers universally admired for their correctness , and their simplicity— prayers in the language of which , the most eminent divines , and the first scholars in every age have esteemed it a privilege ...
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... minister with our mind , and in every response and Amen with our voice ; and in all respects behave like those who are in the mere immediate presence of God . Then will the words of our mouths and the me- ditations of our hearts be ...
... minister with our mind , and in every response and Amen with our voice ; and in all respects behave like those who are in the mere immediate presence of God . Then will the words of our mouths and the me- ditations of our hearts be ...
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... minister is reading it , to appropriate and apply any passages to ourselves and our own case . A great deal is expressed but more is implied ; and our devotions in our closets and in our families , we cannot better perhaps express than ...
... minister is reading it , to appropriate and apply any passages to ourselves and our own case . A great deal is expressed but more is implied ; and our devotions in our closets and in our families , we cannot better perhaps express than ...
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Almighty Amen ancient apostles appointed baptism baptized behold beseech thee Bishop blessed body called Christ our Lord Christian Church Church of England circumcision Collect comfort command Communion confession congregation Dean Comber Dean Stanhope death declare deliver disciples divine doctrine doth duty earth enemies Epistle eternal everlasting evil exhortation faith Father flesh forgive give glory God the Father God's Gospel grace hand hath heart heaven heavenly Holy Ghost Holy Spirit honour Jesus Christ Jews John King kingdom Lesson Liturgy live Lord's Lord's Prayer Lord's Supper Luke Matt mercy Minister ness ourselves peace persons Pharisees praise pray prayer priest promise prophets Psalm receive religion repentance resurrection righteousness rubric sacrament saints saith salvation Saviour Scripture servants shew sins solemn soul suffer Sunday thanksgiving thine things thy holy tion tism truth unto thee Wheatly word worship
Popular passages
Page 320 - Verily I say unto you, that ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
Page 357 - If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
Page 296 - God: praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints...
Page 260 - And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come. So that servant came, and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.
Page 223 - Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead : so the last error shall be worse than the first.
Page 487 - But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die. And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain ; it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain. But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him ; and to every seed his own body.
Page 228 - Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree : him God raised up the third day, and showed him openly ; not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
Page 386 - WE do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy : grant us, therefore, gracious Lord, so to eat the flesh of thy dear Son Jesus Christ, and to drink his blood, that our sinful bodies may be made clean by his body, and our souls washed through his most precious blood, and that...
Page 223 - And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
Page 313 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel- unto the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.