Devotions for the Family and the Closet from the Manual of a Country Clergyman

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Protestant Episcopal Press, print., 1835 - Devotional exercises - 115 pages
 

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Page 54 - Sunday after Trinity. LORD of all power and might, who art the Author and Giver of all good things ; graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. PRAYER.
Page 24 - we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest them, that by patience and comfort of thy holy word we may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed hope of everlasting life which thou hast given us in our Saviour JESUS CHRIST. Amen. PRAYER.
Page 59 - up, I am present with thee. Try me, O GOD, and seek the ground of my heart; prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Glory be to the FATHER, and to
Page 30 - that we may love the thing- that thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise, that so among- the sundry and manifold chang-es of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed where true joys are to be found, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. PRAYER.
Page 40 - who hast exalted thine only Son, JESUS CHRIST, with great triumph into thy kingdom in heaven, we beseech thee leave us not comfortless, but send to us thy HOLY GHOST to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same place whither our Saviour CHRIST is gone before, who liveth and reigneth with thee, and
Page 44 - Sunday after Trinity. O LORD, who never failest to help and govern those whom thou dost bring- up in thy steadfast fear and love, keep us, we beseech thee, under the protection of thy good providence, and make us to have a perpetual fear and love of thy holy name, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. PRAYER.
Page 39 - and hearken unto the voice of his words. O praise the LORD, all ye his hosts; ye servants of his, that do his pleasure. O speak good of the LORD, all ye works of his, in all places of his dominion. Praise thou the LORD, O my soul.
Page 38 - and healeth all thine infirmities; Who saveth thy life from destruction; and crowneth thee with mercy and loving-kindness. The LORD is full of compassion and mercy, long-suffering and of great goodness. He will not alway be chiding; neither keepeth He his anger for ever. He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For
Page 85 - Wednesday. ALMIGHTY and everlasting GOD, who hatest nothing that thou hast made, and dost forgive the sins of all those who are penitent; create and make in us new and contrite hearts, that we, worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness, may obtain of thee, the GOD of all mercy, perfect remission and forgiveness, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen.
Page 17 - 13. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. Ephes.

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