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... prayer , makes it as much a man's duty to be upon his guard against temptation , as under it . Nor can a man pray from his heart , that God would not lead him into temptation , if he take no care himself to avoid it . CHAPTER IX . Self ...
... prayer , makes it as much a man's duty to be upon his guard against temptation , as under it . Nor can a man pray from his heart , that God would not lead him into temptation , if he take no care himself to avoid it . CHAPTER IX . Self ...
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... prayer , or read our Saviour's comment upon it , Matt . vi . 14 , 15. with an unforgiving temper ? Do I not hope to be forgiven ten thousand talents ? and cannot I forgive my fellow - servant thirty pence , when I know not but he hath ...
... prayer , or read our Saviour's comment upon it , Matt . vi . 14 , 15. with an unforgiving temper ? Do I not hope to be forgiven ten thousand talents ? and cannot I forgive my fellow - servant thirty pence , when I know not but he hath ...
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... prayer ; and how much you stand in need of forgiveness yourself , both from God and man ; how fruitless , how foolish , is indulged resentment ; how tormenting to yourself . You have too much good nature willingly to give others so much ...
... prayer ; and how much you stand in need of forgiveness yourself , both from God and man ; how fruitless , how foolish , is indulged resentment ; how tormenting to yourself . You have too much good nature willingly to give others so much ...
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... prayer - books , if we were skilful in reading them . Why do men pray , and call for prayers , when they come to die ; but that they begin a little better to know themselves ? And were they now but to hear the voice of God and con ...
... prayer - books , if we were skilful in reading them . Why do men pray , and call for prayers , when they come to die ; but that they begin a little better to know themselves ? And were they now but to hear the voice of God and con ...
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... prayer ( which I generally find it best to do immediately after a few serious reflec- tions ) , I gave way to idle musing , to the great dis- order of my heart and frame . How often have I suffered for want of more watchfulness on this ...
... prayer ( which I generally find it best to do immediately after a few serious reflec- tions ) , I gave way to idle musing , to the great dis- order of my heart and frame . How often have I suffered for want of more watchfulness on this ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 204 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: let him eschew evil, and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it.
Página 230 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Página 222 - When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me; For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
Página 204 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they who seek the Lord, shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Página 229 - Marvel not at this ; for the hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves shall hear His voice, and shall come forth : they that have done good unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation ?
Página 47 - But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth ; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.
Página 83 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Página 211 - For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
Página 200 - The wicked flee when no man pursueth : but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Página 197 - The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.