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... gracious to thy servant , Amen , V. The Prayer or Petition . BLESS me , gracious God , in my calling to such purposes as thou shall choose for me , or employ me in : relieve me in all my sadnesses , make my bed in my sickness , give ...
... gracious to thy servant , Amen , V. The Prayer or Petition . BLESS me , gracious God , in my calling to such purposes as thou shall choose for me , or employ me in : relieve me in all my sadnesses , make my bed in my sickness , give ...
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... gracious promises . VI . TEACH me to watch over all my ways , that I may never be surprised by sudden temptations , or a care- less spirit , nor ever return to folly and vanity . Set a watch , O Lord , before my mouth , and keep the ...
... gracious promises . VI . TEACH me to watch over all my ways , that I may never be surprised by sudden temptations , or a care- less spirit , nor ever return to folly and vanity . Set a watch , O Lord , before my mouth , and keep the ...
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... gracious , vouchsafe thy favour and thy blessing to thy servant : let the love of thy mercies and the dread and fear of thy Majesty make me careful and inquisitive to search thy will , and diligently to perform it , and to persevere in ...
... gracious , vouchsafe thy favour and thy blessing to thy servant : let the love of thy mercies and the dread and fear of thy Majesty make me careful and inquisitive to search thy will , and diligently to perform it , and to persevere in ...
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... gracious that beauty would be if she super- adds chastity * . 5. Married persons , by consent , are to abstain from their mutual entertainments at solemn times of devo- tion ; not as a duty of itself necessary , but as being the most ...
... gracious that beauty would be if she super- adds chastity * . 5. Married persons , by consent , are to abstain from their mutual entertainments at solemn times of devo- tion ; not as a duty of itself necessary , but as being the most ...
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... gracious Father of men and angels , who openest thy hand and fillest all things with plenty , and hast provided for thy servant sufficient to satisfy all my needs ; teach me to use thy creatures soberly and temperately , that I may not ...
... gracious Father of men and angels , who openest thy hand and fillest all things with plenty , and hast provided for thy servant sufficient to satisfy all my needs ; teach me to use thy creatures soberly and temperately , that I may not ...
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Page 80 - And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares ; for as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
Page 30 - Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him ? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth ? saith the Lord.
Page 139 - I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting ; in like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety, not with broidered hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array, but (which becometh women professing godliness,) with good works.
Page 226 - That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Page 437 - The lions do lack, and suffer hunger ; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Page 393 - And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us ; and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Page 61 - Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
Page 64 - But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burnt up.
Page 176 - Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
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