Six Discourses on Family WorshipSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Piety, and Charity, 1816 - 119 pages |
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Page 55
... better inheritance , than any fortune you can leave them . * Your servants , also , will be likely to derive great advantages from family worship . You ought to look upon yourselves as fathers to all committed to your care . Servants ...
... better inheritance , than any fortune you can leave them . * Your servants , also , will be likely to derive great advantages from family worship . You ought to look upon yourselves as fathers to all committed to your care . Servants ...
Page 71
... better , in the judgment of sober rea- son , that the pursuit of temporal interest should be a little checked and for a while sus- pended , than that affairs of everlasting conse- quence should be laid aside ? That you should inipair ...
... better , in the judgment of sober rea- son , that the pursuit of temporal interest should be a little checked and for a while sus- pended , than that affairs of everlasting conse- quence should be laid aside ? That you should inipair ...
Page 72
... better . Besides , the more business you and your families have to do in the world , the more need you have of prayer ; as it is a means to engage the assistance and blessing of God ; and as it tends to preserve your hearts from being ...
... better . Besides , the more business you and your families have to do in the world , the more need you have of prayer ; as it is a means to engage the assistance and blessing of God ; and as it tends to preserve your hearts from being ...
Page 78
... better they should submit upon interested views , than not submit at all . Their secret dislike to religion may be conquered by prayer ; at least it will not render your prayers vain and ineffectual upon the whole ; since Christ prayed ...
... better they should submit upon interested views , than not submit at all . Their secret dislike to religion may be conquered by prayer ; at least it will not render your prayers vain and ineffectual upon the whole ; since Christ prayed ...
Page 86
... better to your children than brutes are to their young , if you do not commend them to God , teach them to pray , " to fear the Lord from their youth , and prevent their being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin ? " Is it your only ...
... better to your children than brutes are to their young , if you do not commend them to God , teach them to pray , " to fear the Lord from their youth , and prevent their being hardened by the deceitfulness of sin ? " Is it your only ...
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Page 20 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves ; which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another,) in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospe.1.
Page 63 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. Therefore they say unto God, "Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 43 - The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
Page 9 - Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts : for the Coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Page 34 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house ; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 39 - One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil.
Page 18 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry ? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
Page 65 - Ye have said, It is vain to serve God : and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts...
Page 47 - For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving : For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Page 119 - But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve... But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.