Prayers when the door is shut, by a lady deceased, with additions by A.M.C.

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Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων

Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις

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Σελίδα 68 - O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.
Σελίδα 82 - O GOD, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is; To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
Σελίδα 54 - LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
Σελίδα 54 - My soul breaketh out for the very fervent desire : that it hath alway unto thy judgements. 21 Thou hast rebuked the proud : and cursed are they that do err from thy commandments.
Σελίδα 15 - AWAKE my soul, and with the sun Thy daily stage of duty run ; Shake off dull sloth, and early rise To pay thy morning sacrifice.
Σελίδα 62 - I knew my sin, and I saw my danger, and I was not ignorant, and I was not surprised : but wilfully, knowingly, -basely, and sensually, I gave thee away for the pleasure of a minute, for the purchase of vanity...
Σελίδα 2 - LORD, with what care hast Thou begirt us round, Parents first season us : then schoolmasters Deliver us to laws ; they send us bound To rules of reason, holy messengers, Pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, Afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, Fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, Bibles laid open, millions of surprises, Blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, The sound of glory ringing in our ears ; Without, our shame ; within, our consciences ; Angels and grace, eternal hopes and...
Σελίδα 11 - ... day leave no sorrow, or the remembrance of an evil conscience at night; but let it be holy and profitable, blessed, and always innocent : that when the days of my short abode are done, and the shadow is departed, I may die in Thy fear and favour, and rest in a holy hope, and at last return to the joys of a blessed resurrection, through Jesus Christ...
Σελίδα 4 - Jeremy Taylor's nightly prayer for himself and his friends was for God's merciful deliverance and preservation — ' From the violence and rule of passion ; from a servile will and a commanding lust ; from pride and vanity ; from false opinion and. ignorant confidence ; ' From improvidence and prodigality ; from envy and the spirit of slander ; from sensuality ; from presumption, and from despair; ' From a state of temptation and hardened...
Σελίδα 8 - Guide me, O Lord, in all the changes and varieties of the world ; that in all things that shall happen, I may have an evenness and tranquillity of spirit ; that my soul may be wholly resigned to thy divinest will and pleasure, never murmuring at thy gentle chastisements and fatherly correction ; never waxing proud and insolent,^ though I feel a torrent of comforts and prosperous successes.

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