...sceptre, the ensign of kingly power and justice. And then he delivered the rod, with the dove, into the King's left hand, and said, Receive the rod of...administration and exercise of all those powers he hath given yeu. Be so merciful, that you be not loo remiss ; so execute justice, that you forget not mejcy. Punish...

...prospects, or character, and those of other men, to our own wisdom, management, or exertions ; but to that God ' from ' whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all ' just works do proceed/ We pretend not to have merited the divine protection, guidance, and blessings ; but feel that all was...

...be made like unto him, and be admitted to dwell with thee in thy heavenly kingdom. Amen. O GOD, ' O GOD, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed ; give unto thy servants that peace which the world cannot give ; that both our hearts may be set to...

...out of sight the change made in human nature by the fall, and the renewing grace of the Holy Spirit, from whom ' all holy ' desires, all good counsels, and all just works do ' proceed.' Calvinists are far from holding, that God commanded all those actions of men which are done in accomplishing...

...to will and to do, of his good pleasure." It is from God, as the " fountain of all goodness," that " all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed." Every redeemed sinner will readily and thankfully confess, that it is " special grace" whereby he is...

...applaud the goodness of his own heart, on account of these things, while he-forgot to give glory to him, from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works, do proceed ;* or if you please, to give you it in other words, it should appear that he was more bent upon trusting...

...commencement, as a type of the one true Sacrifice, to be once offered for the sins of the whole world. " All holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed from God." Whether, therefore, the " faith by which Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice...

...is not in our power to do any thing. It is from God, as we express it in one of our prayers, ' that all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works do proceed.'" Mr. Holmes. "The Church, Sir, lost two of its brightest ornaments, when those good and faithful servants...

...Nature is the moral, spiritual, living element, from which, to use the words of the Prayer Book — " All holy desires — all good counsels — and all just works do proceed." This is true — but we have yet a more sure word of testimony. — See Eph. i. 3. Or, rather, to do...

...children!" How similar the language of the church! She addresses God very early in her service, as the " God from whom all holy desires, all good counsels, and all just works, do proceed;" and knowing that our lips are unable to speak of the things of God without his grace, we pray, " O...