 | New Church gen. confer - 1868 - 602 pages
...all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice ;" (xx.) or as this, from John (xvii. 15.) — " I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil ;" or as this remarkable passage — " Simon, Simon, behold Satan hath desired you, to sift... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - Presbyterian Church - 1815 - 408 pages
...discouragements and disquietudes) " I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not;35 again, "O righteous Father, I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." He does not desire that the spiritual warrior should be immediately crowned with the laurel... | |
 | Hopton Haynes - God - 1815 - 304 pages
...to be thy messenger, or apostle. Ver. 9, ' IP ra Y fo r them, I pray not for the world.' Ver. 15, ' I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world.' Ver. 20, ' Neither .pray I for these alone.' Ver. 24, ' I desire, O Father, that those which thou hast... | |
 | Noah Worcester, Henry Ware - 1819 - 504 pages
...world, except its sins; and accordingly our Lord's prayer for his Jisciples was, " I pray not that lliuu shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." IndiiTeren! to it we should be, so far as not to place our depend4enc.e upon it for happiness,... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 408 pages
...of Christ to God for his preservation of the Apostles (John, xvii. 15), And I prin/ not that thoit shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil; that is, the danger of it, the temptations it abounds with, and every thing that may weaken... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 548 pages
...world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou hast given me. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that lhou ehouldst keep them from the evil. Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1823 - 546 pages
...sin, temptation, sorrow, and danger. This, however, is not God's way. / pray not, said the Saviour, that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil, John xvii. 15. It is proper, therefore, to inform them, that thrvugh much tribulation they... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - Death - 1824 - 654 pages
...after us. Thy great and precious promises were made to us and to our children. O heavenly Father, / pray, not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that th/ru wouldsl protect them from evil ; that thou wouldst keep them under the shadow of thy wings,... | |
 | Oliver Reywood - 1825 - 550 pages
...John xvii. 11, "Holy Father, keep through thine own name those that thou hast given me ;" ver. 15, "I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." O blessed word ! Alas, we daily walk among snares and traps, allurements of a sinning world,... | |
 | New Jerusalem Church - 1871 - 548 pages
...all in the ordinary and orderly pursuit of our common human callings and avocations purely and truly. "I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil." The simple keeping from the evil that tempts us in all our daily uses, and duties, and pleasures,... | |
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I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil. 
