 | Sean Finnegan - 2000 - 658 pages
...may not be withheld from us: but that we may promote thy glory, and the salvation both of ourselves and others. Grant this, O Lord, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. SAMUEL JOHNSON I know not, O my God, what may befall me today, but I am well convinced that... | |
 | Richard H. Schmidt - 2002 - 364 pages
...grant, I beseech thee, that in this my undertaking, thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory and the salvation both...this, O Lord, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen. on writing for The Rambler (1750) The excellency of art It is justly considered as the greatest excellency... | |
 | 1822 - 512 pages
...grant, I beseech thee, that in this my undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote thy glory, and the salvation both...this, O Lord, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen." The religion of Dr. Johnson, however, was neither sufficiently clear, nor sufficiently influential.... | |
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...work he composed the remarkable and touching Prayer on the Rambler, in which he prays to God that he "may promote Thy glory and the salvation both of myself and others". The promotion of salvation, which need not be regarded in a narrow, religious light, is the business... | |
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Almighty GOD, the giver of all good things, without whose help all labour is ineffectual, and without whose grace all wisdom is folly : grant, I beseech Thee, that in this undertaking thy Holy Spirit may not be withheld from me, but that I may promote... 
