 | Gilbert Wardlaw - 1830 - 168 σελίδες
...and read as if we believed them, such passages as the following. " And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to...whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions we desired of him."* We have here, in the first place, a limitation, or rather, an explanation, respecting... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 σελίδες
...he confines Its power, makes the promise applicable to every age. " This is the confidence which we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to...that we have the petitions that we desired of him." 1 Such a measure of wisdom was given to the apostles, that they could not ask except according to the... | |
 | 1831 - 982 σελίδες
...resisted. The distinction is recognised in the language of John : " And this is the confidence that we hear even this, because total ignorance has benighted...minds hath carried them away : "they are drunken, (1 John v. 14, 15). In the preceding verse the Apostle informs us to whom he addresses this epistle,... | |
 | Catharine Esther Beecher - 1831 - 464 σελίδες
...on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in Him, (ie the Son of God,) that if we ask any thing according to His will, He...that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." This text expressly shows, that the Son of God, was the Being to whom the Apostle John, and those to... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 σελίδες
...knock that the door of mercy may be opened. " For this," says St. John, " is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to...that we have the petitions that we desired of him." " Why should earthly beauties tear me From the fountain of all bliss, From that Lord, who waits to... | |
 | Andrew Thomson - 1832 - 472 σελίδες
...only implored — agreeably to the statement of the apostle John ; " This is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to...that we have the petitions that we desired of him." There is another declaration made by our Lord in his valedictory discourse, which very strikingly illustrates... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 612 σελίδες
...God ; and it will secure to us infallibly an answer of peace : for " this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to...know that we have the petitions that we desired of himy."] 3. We must wait with patience for the fulfilment of them — [God may not answer, either at... | |
 | John Hall - 1832 - 508 σελίδες
...But through Him we have access by one Spirit unto the Father."' And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask any thing according to...know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.3 Thus He will give us whatever is for His glory and for our good. By this rule all the gifts of... | |
 | Richard Hele - 1832 - 402 σελίδες
...eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to...whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions desired of Him * . If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, That giveth to all men liberally,... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 σελίδες
...rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years I'M! six months. Jamet v. 16, 17- And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask,...desired of him. If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death, he shall ask, and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death.... | |
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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. 
