 Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her...  The posthumous works of ... Thomas Boston - Page 147by Thomas Boston - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 312 pages
...earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." It MAKES US FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK. "I reckon it," says Bennett, " matter of common experience... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...earnestly that it might not rain : and it rained not on the earth, by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. (See preceding Motions.) J?rom tfjc IBoofe of Common MORNING PRAYER. General Confession, to be said... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Prayer - 1822 - 330 pages
...earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." It MAKES tfs FRUITFUL IN EVERY GOOD WORK. "I reckon it," says Bennett, " matter of common experience... | |
 | Christopher Benson - Bible - 1822 - 472 pages
...earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth for the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit"." It was the same earth upon which both these events fell, and they fell upon it at the bidding of another.... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...might not rain, and it rained not on the earth, by the space of three years and six months. And be prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit."} An example this worthy of imitation, and to which, in other particular emergencies, we are encouraged,... | |
 | 1823 - 542 pages
...earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months; and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." (Ver. 17, 18.) Saving the sick and raising him up, cannot be understood spiritualty as signifying the... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 438 pages
...prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not on the land/or three years and six months: 18 and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its produce. 19 Brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one turn him back to it; 20 let... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology - 1824 - 602 pages
...earnestly, that it might not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.' These great effects, it is to be remembered, were consequences of the prayers of a single man. After... | |
 | Martin Luther - Lutheran Church - 1824 - 588 pages
...earnestly that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit," ver. 17, 18. And the scripture furnishes us with many prayers and examples of this kind for our encouragement... | |
 | Jacob Catlin - Theology, Doctrinal - 1824 - 314 pages
...earnestly that it might not rain ; and it rained not on the earth, by the space of three years and six months. And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit." Hearing the prayers of Elijah -was not the only instance, in ancient ages, of God's hearing and answering... | |
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