| Jesse Kersey - Society of Friends - 1818 - 158 pages
...Almighty. "But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think, that they shall be heard for their much speak*ing. Be not ye...them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him." Matt. vii. 8. ThesŤ cautions are sufficient to prove that though our Lord... | |
| Jesse Kersey - Society of Friends - 1818 - 152 pages
...repetitions as the heathen do, for they think, that they shall be heard for their much speak* ing. Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.v Matt. vii. 8. These cautions are sufficient to preve that though our Lord... | |
| Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye...them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him c. SECT. 4. Promises of being heard, stated as motives to importunity and... | |
| 1819 - 212 pages
...thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye...unto them : for Your Father knoweth what things ye haveneed of before ye ask him. After this man| ner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven,... | |
| sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pages
...prayer, we must attend to this further rule, given us by our divine Master: But, when ye pray, use no vain repetitions, as the heathen do; for they think they shall be heard Jar their much speaking. Here the word vain maybe well interpreted in two senses — vain, as to the... | |
| Rammohun Roy - 1820 - 100 pages
...openly. . But when. ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye...them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye : Our Father, which ait in heaven,... | |
| Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1820 - 634 pages
...Liturgy — viz. ' when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens do ; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking : be not ye, therefore, like unto them.' " The repetitions, and consequent unnecessary length, of our Church Service, are faults, however, which... | |
| Richard Wiggins - Spellers - 1821 - 156 pages
...is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they...them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. After this manner therefore pray ye : Our Father which art in . heaven,... | |
| William Gilpin - 1821 - 448 pages
...other prayer is the prayer of hypocrites; and, so far, like the Pharisees. We are told also, not to use vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. The heathen used to think there was religion in repeating a number her of prayers, though... | |
| Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822 - 156 pages
...'thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye...them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth unto all men... | |
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