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Essays, Moral and Literary - Page 180
by Vicesimus Knox - 1783
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The Orthodox churchman's magazine; or, A Treasury of divine and ..., Volume 2

1802 - 442 pages
...obtain our requests. We address God, as " our Lord and heavenly Father, high and mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only ruler of princes, who from his throne beholds all the dwellers upon earth ;" and beseech him ¿o behold with, the eyes of his favour our lawful monarch...
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The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature:: A Collection of Essays ...

1806 - 360 pages
...moft perfect charaQers which have adorned the records of human nature. There is one beneficial effect: of national adverfity, of greater importance than...bids the fceptre to depart from the wicked to the T 2 righteoi' righteous. It teaches us to rely lefs upon our German auxiliaries, our mufkets, our mortars,...
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The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Collection of Essays ...

Solomon Hodgson - 1806 - 362 pages
...moft perfect characters which have adorned the records of human nature. There is one beneficial effect of national adverfity, of greater importance than...King of kings, the Lord of lords, the only Ruler of Einces, who from his throne beholds all nations, and ds the fceptre to depart from the wicked to the...
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A Discourse Concerning Prayer: And the Frequenting Daily Public Prayers

Simon Patrick - 1812 - 316 pages
...is in the Collect for our 182 PUBLIC PRAYERS MOST king, to be the " High and Mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only ruler of princes ; who from His throne beholds all that dwell on the earth." And they are all (as the prophet most admirably expresses it) " as nothing,...
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The British Essayists: Knox's essays

James Ferguson - 1823 - 328 pages
...which I have enumerated. It subdues the haughty soul elevated with riches and inebriated with excess, and turns the attention to the King of kings, the...from His throne, beholds all nations, and bids the sceptre to depart from the wicked to the righteous. It teaches us to rely less upon our German auxiliaries,...
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface, Volume 2

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 612 pages
...which I have enumerated. It subdues the haughty soul, elevated with riches, and inebriated with excess, and turns the attention to the King of kings, the...from his throne beholds all nations, and bids the sceptre to depart from the wicked to the righteous. It teaches us to rely less upon our foreign auxiliaries,...
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The Works of Vicesimus Knox, D.D.: With a Biographical Preface, Volume 6

Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 466 pages
...island from becoming the seat of war; a mercy, for which we ought to pour daily hymns of gratitude to the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, the only Ruler of Princes. Let us persevere, in holding fast that religion, and that happy constitutional freedom, from which...
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A critical and practical elucidation of the Book of common prayer ..., Volume 1

John Shepherd - 1828 - 408 pages
...our requests. We address God as " our " Lord and heavenly Father, high and mighty, King " of kings, Lord of lords, the only ruler of princes, " who from his throne beholds all the dwellers upon " earth ;" and beseech him to behold with the eyes c. 30.) — Oramus pro imperatoribus,...
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Plain sermons on the liturgy of the Church of England

William Weldon Champneys - 1840 - 108 pages
...God, he is able to help them always. Thus again, in the Prayer for the Sovereign, we address God as ' the King of kings, the Lord of lords, the only Ruler of princes, who from his throne beholdeth all the dwellers upon earth ;' — as a King, then, God may especially be called on to help...
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A Discourse Concerning Prayer: And the Frequenting Daily Public Prayers

Simon Patrick - 1841 - 324 pages
...is in the Collect for our 182 PUBLIC PRAYERS MOST king, to be the " High and Mighty, King of kings, Lord of lords, the only ruler of princes ; who from His throne beholds all that dwell on the earth." And they are all (as the prophet most admirably expresses it) " as nothing,...
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