 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 538 pàgines
...delight in such religious exercises. True grace had this effect bn Anna the prophetess.; Luke ii. 37. She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And grace had this effect upon the primitive Christians in Jerusalem; Acts ii. 46, 47. And they continuing... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 544 pàgines
...she had lived to be more than an hundred years old, yet was not weary of this duty. It is said, " She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day," Cornelins also is commended for his constancy in this duty. It is said, that -he prayed to God always;... | |
 | Henrietta Maria Bowdler - 1819 - 270 pàgines
...Amen. SERMON XVI. ST. LUKE ii. 37, 38. And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers, night and day. And she, coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1819 - 558 pàgines
...husband seven years from her virginity ; and she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. And she, coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that... | |
 | Isaac Milner - 1820 - 462 pàgines
...had lived to the advanced age of fourscore and four years, she was not yet weary of praying? " She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." In the Acts of the Apostles, it is said of Cornelius, that " he prayed to God always." St. Paul insists... | |
 | Isaac Milner - 1820 - 466 pàgines
...had lived to the advanced age of fourscore and four years, she was not yet weary of praying? " She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." In the Acts of the Apostles, it is said of Cornelius, that " he prayed to God always." St. Paul insists... | |
 | William Law - 1821 - 352 pàgines
...necessary to salvation. If you wiis to hear her say, that she had lived all her life like Anne the prophetess, who departed not from the temple, but...served God with fastings and prayers night and day, you would look upon her as very extravagant ; and' yet this would be no greater an extravagance, than... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1821 - 472 pàgines
...in such religious exercises. True grace had this effect on Anna the prophetess; Luke ii. 37. " She departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day." And grace had this effect upon the primitive Christians in Jerusalem, Acts ii. 46, 47. " And they continuing... | |
 | William Law - 1821 - 308 pàgines
...necessary to salvation. If you were to hear her say that she hud lived all her life, like Anne the prophetess, who departed not from the temple ; but served God with fastings andprayers night and day ; you would look upon her as very extravagant ; and yet this would be no greater... | |
 | 1822 - 412 pàgines
...daughter of Phanuel, waiting for the consolation of Israel.} Of the latter, St. Luke says, that she " departed not from the temple, but served God, with fastings and prayers, night and day." It is to be observed here, that a continual attendance upon the service of the temple is said to be... | |
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And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day. 
