The Book of Private Devotion: A Series of Prayers and Meditations, with an Introductory Essay on PrayerLeavitt, Lord, and Company, 1835 - 256 pages |
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... duty , and the best helps for performing it ; if we do , the cogency of these motives , and the inestimable value of these helps , will render argument un- necessary , and exhortation superfluous . One cause , therefore , of the dulness ...
... duty , and the best helps for performing it ; if we do , the cogency of these motives , and the inestimable value of these helps , will render argument un- necessary , and exhortation superfluous . One cause , therefore , of the dulness ...
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... duty of prayer is unknown , and by whom the privilege of prayer is unfelt ; or he by whom it is ne- glected ; or he who uses it for form and not from feeling , may probably say , Will this work , wearisome even if necessary never know ...
... duty of prayer is unknown , and by whom the privilege of prayer is unfelt ; or he by whom it is ne- glected ; or he who uses it for form and not from feeling , may probably say , Will this work , wearisome even if necessary never know ...
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... duty . How many ex- cuses do we find for not being in time ! How many apologies for brevity ! How many evasions for neglect ! How unwill- ing , too often , are we to come into the divine presence , how reluctant to remain in it ? Those ...
... duty . How many ex- cuses do we find for not being in time ! How many apologies for brevity ! How many evasions for neglect ! How unwill- ing , too often , are we to come into the divine presence , how reluctant to remain in it ? Those ...
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... duty ; both are soon weary in performing it . As prayer requires all the energies of the compound being of man , so we too often feel as if there were a conspiracy of body , soul and spirit , to decline and disqualify us for it . To be ...
... duty ; both are soon weary in performing it . As prayer requires all the energies of the compound being of man , so we too often feel as if there were a conspiracy of body , soul and spirit , to decline and disqualify us for it . To be ...
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... duty of every Christian to pray in private . OUR Saviour hath enjoined it on all his followers , by precept , by promise , and by his own blessed example ; " When thou prayest , enter into thy closet , and when thou hast shut thy door ...
... duty of every Christian to pray in private . OUR Saviour hath enjoined it on all his followers , by precept , by promise , and by his own blessed example ; " When thou prayest , enter into thy closet , and when thou hast shut thy door ...
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Page 222 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 49 - Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; And take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; And uphold me with thy free Spirit.
Page 74 - Verily verily I say unto you ; Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name ; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Page 34 - He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Page 219 - Return) O holy Dove ! return, Sweet messenger of rest; I hate the sins that made Thee mourn. And drove Thee from my breast.
Page 138 - Rejoice the soul of thy servant : for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Page 218 - Where is the blessedness I knew When first I saw the Lord? Where is the soul-refreshing view Of Jesus and his word? 3 What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.
Page 28 - Thou, by whom we come to God, The life, the truth, the way, The path of prayer thyself hast trod Lord, teach us how to pray.
Page 230 - I view, And days are dark, and friends are few, On Him I lean, who, not in vain, Experienced every human pain : He sees my wants, allays my fears, And counts and treasures up my tears.
Page 223 - Brightest and best of the sons of the morning! Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid! Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid!