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Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by Farrar, Frederic William (1831-1903)
"The hearts of kings are in Thy rule and governance, and Thou dost dispose and turn them as it seemeth best to Thy godly wisdom." Were we to judge the compiler or epitomator of the Book of Kings from the literary standpoint of modern historians, he would, no doubt, hold a very inferior place; but so to judge him would be to take a mistaken view of his object,…
Lord's Prayer by Watson, Thomas (c. 1620-1686)
‘Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.’ Matt 6: 10. We come next to the third petition, ‘Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. This petition consists of two parts: the matter, ‘Doing God’s will;’ and the manner, ‘As it is in heaven.’ What is meant by the will of God? There is a twofold will.
History of the Christian Church, Volume I: Apostolic Christianity. A.D. 1-100 by Schaff, Philip (1819-1893)
. (See the Lit. in § 40 p. 405.) General Character. The unity of Jewish Christian and Gentile Christian theology meets us in the writings of John, who, in the closing decades of the first century, summed up the final results of the preceding struggles of the apostolic age and transmitted them to posterity.
Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God by Bayly, Lewis (1565-1631)
The sick Person ought now to send for some godly and religious Pastor. In any wise remember, if conveniently it may be, to send for some godly and religious pastor, not only to pray for thee at thy death—for God in such a case hath promised to hear the prayers of the righteous prophets, and elders of the church (Gen.
Complete Works of Thomas Manton, D.D. Vol. II by Manton, Thomas (1620-1677)
But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice.—Mat. IX. 13. THESE words are part of Christ’s plea for his converse with publicans and sinners, at which the pharisees took offence.
Abstract of Systematic Theology by Boyce, James Petigru (1827-1888)
... this subject we have more full information than upon the acts of creation or providence. God is also brought ...
Golden Legend, vol. 1 by Voragine, Jacobus de (1230-1298)
... witnesseth S. Luke in the story of the Acts of the Apostles, on this day was sent to the apostles ... and constantly, as S. Luke saith in the Acts of the Apostles: They were all replenished with the Holy Ghost ...
Expositions of the Holy Scriptures: Second Kings from Chap. VIII, and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah, Esther, Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes by MacLaren, Alexander (1826-1910)
‘The sand is weighty.’—PROVERBS xxvii. 3. This Book of Proverbs has a very wholesome horror of the character which it calls ‘a fool’; meaning thereby, not so much intellectual feebleness as moral and religious obliquity, which are the stupidest things that a man can be guilty of.
Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I by Erasmus, Desiderius (c. 1466-1536)
... adds, having Life in Potentia. Form does not act upon every Thing; but upon a Body that is ...
New Evangelism and other Papers by Drummond, Henry (1851-1897)
[The introductory page of the MS., which is lost, doubtless contained a reference to a division into Inorganic or First Kingdom, Organic or Second, and Spiritual or Third.] I MAY be permitted to summarize briefly the teaching of the Sacred Books on the central subject of the Kingdom of God, and to point it, as occasion may offer,…