The domestic guide to the footstool of mercy: a course of morning and evening prayers for one month

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Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, 1828 - Families - 251 pages
 

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Page 34 - of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not; eyes have they, but they see not. They have ears, but they hear not; noses have they, but they smell not. They have hands, but they handle not; feet have they, but they walk not. But
Page 122 - WE praise thee, O God, we acknowledge thee to be the Lord. All the earth doth worship thee; the Father everlasting. To thee all angels cry aloud, the heavens and all the powers therein. To thee Cherubim and Seraphim continually do cry, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth.
Page 73 - it remaineth that both they that have wives be as though they had none, and they that weep as though they wept not, and they that rejoice as though they rejoiced not, and they that buy as though they possessed not, and they that use this world as not abusing it,—for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Page 66 - strayed from thy ways like lost sheep; we have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts; we have offended against thy holy laws; we have left undone the things that we ought to have done, and we have done the things that we ought not to have done, and
Page 164 - words, How shall I give thee up, Ephraim ? How shall I deliver thee, Israel? How shall I make thee as Admah ? How shall I set thee as Zeboim ? Mine heart is turned within me; my repentings are kindled together ; I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger jI will not return to
Page 130 - greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God, for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with a robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. For
Page 111 - come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old ? Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil ? Shall we give our first-born for our transgression, the fruit of our body for the sin of our soul
Page 95 - deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water-spouts, and all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me, yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life.
Page 66 - THY mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens, and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds. Thy righteousness is like the great mountains ; thy judgments are a great deep: O Lord, thou preservest man and beast. How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore do the children of men put their trust under the shadow of
Page 159 - mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation. He hath shewed strength with his arm, he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath sent empty away. And

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