Prayers for the Use of Families: Chiefly Selected from Various Authors ; with a Preliminary Essay, Together with a Selection of HymnsClark & Raser, 1833 - 340 pages |
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... nature has so constituted us , that as a great universal rule pa- rents will love their children ; and because no small part of their exertions are called forth with express , and al- most sole reference to their present and future ...
... nature has so constituted us , that as a great universal rule pa- rents will love their children ; and because no small part of their exertions are called forth with express , and al- most sole reference to their present and future ...
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... natural honesty , and ingenuousness , may easily be ex- cited to indignation and scorn at the base feelings of the recipient of favours , who repays them with thought- lessness and unconcern . But are you not in doing this , teaching ...
... natural honesty , and ingenuousness , may easily be ex- cited to indignation and scorn at the base feelings of the recipient of favours , who repays them with thought- lessness and unconcern . But are you not in doing this , teaching ...
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... nature of abstract statute and law . I would not look for iron enactments , and Gothic and terrific mandates here . A parent's love for his children , prompts him to do all that is possible for their welfare . For them he toils , he ...
... nature of abstract statute and law . I would not look for iron enactments , and Gothic and terrific mandates here . A parent's love for his children , prompts him to do all that is possible for their welfare . For them he toils , he ...
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... nature of piety . And especially is this the case where duty has been long ne- glected . Then , to return is always difficult . Fear and shame will always plead for a longer indulgence . The man will be diffident just in proportion to ...
... nature of piety . And especially is this the case where duty has been long ne- glected . Then , to return is always difficult . Fear and shame will always plead for a longer indulgence . The man will be diffident just in proportion to ...
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... nature of such prayers , sooner than a family . The God whom you worship is not an idol . Your wants are not fictions . Your sins are real . The dangers of your children are mighty , and pressing . Your relation to God , and eternity ...
... nature of such prayers , sooner than a family . The God whom you worship is not an idol . Your wants are not fictions . Your sins are real . The dangers of your children are mighty , and pressing . Your relation to God , and eternity ...
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adore Almighty Awake behold beseech thee bids bless thee blest bliss cheerful crown darkness death delight divine duty dwell earth eternal ev'ning ev'ry everlasting evil eyes faith Father fear final doom forgive give glorious gospel grant hail harvest hath hear heart heav'nly heaven honour hope hosannas hour humble HYMN Jesus Christ King let thy light live means of grace morning night o'er ourselves peace pleasure pray prayer rays Bright reign rejoice rest righteousness rise Sabbath saints salvation Saviour scene seasons shine sing sinners sins skies slothful band smiling songs songs of praise sorrow souls spring sweet sweet day tender mercies thanks thine things thou art thou hast thy blessing thy glory thy grace thy hands thy Holy Spirit thy love thy mercy thy name Thy pow'r thy praise thy throne thy word tongue unto thee vile bodies voice winter worlds unknown worship
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Page 65 - Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it is written of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Page 184 - Almighty and most merciful Father : We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done ; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done ; and there is no health in us.
Page 76 - And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.
Page 46 - They chant their artless notes in simple guise; They tune their hearts, by far the noblest aim : Perhaps ' Dundee's ' wild warbling measures rise, Or plaintive *• Martyrs...
Page 234 - Bless the LORD, O my soul. PSALM 104 BLESS the LORD, 0 my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great ; Thou art clothed with honour and majesty.
Page 142 - The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Page 208 - Christ, who at thy first coming didst send thy messenger to prepare thy way before thee ; Grant that the ministers and stewards of thy mysteries may likewise so prepare and make ready thy way, by turning the hearts of the disobedient to the wisdom of the just...
Page 242 - The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
Page 46 - The priest-like father reads the sacred page, How Abram was the friend of God on high ; Or, Moses bade eternal warfare wage With Amalek's ungracious progeny ; Or, how the royal bard did groaning lie Beneath the stroke of Heaven's avenging ire ; Or, Job's pathetic plaint and wailing cry ; Or, rapt Isaiah's wild, seraphic fire ; Or other holy seers that tune the sacred lyre.
Page 230 - Now unto Him that is able to keep us from falling, and. to present us faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy ; to the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.