Lancelot Andrewes and His Private Devotions: A Biography, a Transcript and an Interpretation |
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ALEXANDER WHYTE Andrewes's antique laid paper Bacon Behold beseech Thee Bishop of Chichester Bishop of Winchester Blessed art Thou blood body Bunyan Characters Casaubon Christian Church cloth extra confess death deliver despise devo divine earth EDINBURGH evil eyes faith Father fear flesh forgive give Godfearing grant hands hath hear heart heaven Holy Ghost honour iniquity INTERCESSION Isaac Casaubon James John Bunyan judgment king knowest Lancelot Andrewes longsuffering Lord MEDITATION AND ADORATION mind morning night peace Pilgrim's Progress pity praise Thee pray PRAYER FOR GRACE Private Devotions Psalm redeemed Rehoboam rejoice remember repentance resurrection salvation SAMUEL RUTHERFORD Saviour Scotland sermons shame shew sinned against Thee sinners soul Spirit tears tender mercies Thanksgiving things Thou art Thou didst Thou hast Thy holy Thy lovingkindness Thy mercy Thy name Thy servant Thyself transgressions truth vouchsafe whole Whyte William Law wilt word worthy
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Page 167 - I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh...
Page 73 - NOW the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 143 - I will extol Thee, my God, O King ; And I will bless Thy name for ever and ever. Every day will I bless Thee ; And I will praise Thy name for ever and ever.
Page 144 - Nevertheless, he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
Page 90 - Surely every man walketh in a vain shew : surely they are disquieted in vain : he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. And now, Lord, what wait I for ? my hope is in thee.
Page 110 - Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.
Page 131 - And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
Page 193 - As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it. and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Page 103 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page 128 - Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them. They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.