 ... that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy Name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss,...  A Volume of Varieties - Page 124by Charles Knight - 1844 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Fry - 1835 - 508 pages
...God we pray in the Catholic Church in the British Isles, — "beseeching thee that it may please thee shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom." "After this," St. John tells us, in verse ninth, " I saw a great multitude which no man could number,"... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1835 - 300 pages
...kingdom of heaven ; " to the last prayer pronounced over our departed bodies,' " that it may please thee shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy 1 The intermediate state of the soul has occupied much of theattention of Christian Divines. The place... | |
 | Henry Joseph Monck Mason - 1836 - 168 pages
...the souls " of the faithful, after they are delivered from the " burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity } we " give thee hearty thanks for that it...number of thine elect, and to hasten " thy kingdom ; that we, with all those who are " departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may " have OUT perfect... | |
 | 1836 - 108 pages
...; we give thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased thee to deliver this our brother (or sister) out of the miseries of this sinful world ; beseeching...the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect... | |
 | John Wesley - 1836 - 552 pages
...ages. Exactly answerable to all this, are those awful words in the prayer at the burial of the dead : " Beseeching thee, that it may please thee of thy gracious...the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom : that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1836 - 506 pages
...ejus coetus membrum esse, et perpetuo mansurum. Catech. Heidel. in Syllog. Confess. p. 373. We beseech thee, that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness,...THE NUMBER OF THINE ELECT and to hasten thy kingdom : that WE, with all those that are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may have our perfect... | |
 | William Wilberforce - 1836 - 96 pages
...Blessed Lord, our help and our hope are in Thee. Perfect that which concerneth us, and may it please Thee shortly to accomplish the number of Thine elect, and to hasten Thy kingdom ; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of Thy holy name, may have our perfect... | |
 | 1837 - 528 pages
...felicity, we give Thee hearty thanks for that it pleased Thee, as on this day, to deliver our dear brother out of the miseries of this sinful world ;...number of Thine elect, and to hasten Thy kingdom, that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of Thy holy name, may have our perfect... | |
 | George Montagu (6th duke of Manchester.) - 1837 - 346 pages
...God's foreknowledge .... 196 Matt. xxii. 2-14, considered . . . 197 CHAP. IX. SCRIPTURE DIFFICULTIES. " Beseeching thee that it may please thee of thy gracious...number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom." — Burial Service. Quotations respecting the Gentile dispensation . 202 Acts, xv. examined ; Amos,... | |
 | Charles Bridges - 1837 - 184 pages
...the mourning of God's people over the desolation of the heathen world, and their 113 We beseech thee to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom, that we, with all those who are departed this life in thy faith and fear, may have our perfect consummation... | |
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