...of Samuel; Elizabeth, the mother of John; Mary, the mother of Jesus ; and Anna, the prophetess, who departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day. Whatever may be the reasons, why women are more generally and more eminently pious and devout than...

...prophetess, of whom it is said, that, through the course of many years, to an extreme old age, " She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." The early piety of Jephthah's daughter, seems to have predisposed and fitted her for such a kind of...

...seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes, Dan. ii. 3. And she trou a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed...served God with fastings and prayers night and day, Luke ii. 37. And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour ; and at the ninth hour...

...she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity ; 37 And she was the woman died also. 23 In the resurrection therefore,...wife shall 8he be of them ? for the seven had her 38 And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them...

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...for they know not what they do. If 3 SERMON XVI. The Duties of the Aged. LUKE ii. 37, 38. Andilie was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the Temple, but served Cod with fastings and prayers night and day. And she coming in that instant, gave thanks lihewise unto...

...night and day. * See on Matt. rii. ver. 21. 11 And she vxa л widow of about fourscore and four jjears, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day, Luke ii. 37. VER. 6. I But she that liveth * in pleasure b 15 ilearl while the liveth. * Or, delicately....

...in truth. There was a devout Simeon, who waited for the consolation of Israel — a devout Anna, who departed not from the temple, but served God, with fastings and prayers, night and day — a Nathaniel, whom the omniscient eye of the Saviour observed pouring out his heart to God in prayer,...

...familiar to us ! Anna, too, — she who had been " a widow of about four score and four years, who departed not from the Temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day," — she, too, was not neglected in this hour of consolation, but had all her prayers answered in one...