 | William Law - 1726 - 552 pagina’s
...Degree of Love, furely it muft be ftupid to add to the Difficulty, by foolifh and contrary Affections. THIRDLY, If this is the proper Love of Angels, this...pray, that his Will may be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. AT leaft, if this is the Love of Angels, it fliews us, that we are to imitate it as far... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1844 - 496 pagina’s
...degree, may be obtained by man under the Christian dispensations, because its Divine Author has taught us to pray " that his will may be done on earth as it is done in heaven." R***. Preston, July 9th, 1844. THE LAST JUDGMENT. To the Editor of the Intellectual... | |
 | Edward Reynolds, Alexander Chalmers - 1826 - 574 pagina’s
...Kings xii. 5) The church of Christ in heaven shall have no divisions in it ; and he hath taught us to pray, that " his will may be done on earth, as it is in heaven." Why should we not, with all seriousness and sincerity, endeavour, as far as possibly may... | |
 | Edward Reynolds (bp. of Norwich.) - 1826 - 980 pagina’s
...Kings xii. 5) The church of Christ in heaven shall have no divisions in it ; and he hath taught us to pray, that " his will may be done on earth, as it is in heaven." Why should we not, with all seriousness and sincerity, endeavour, as far as possibly may... | |
 | Emily Elizabeth Rankin - 1829 - 198 pagina’s
...in the depths of awful sin, and more awful punishment, His dreadful will is done. We are told, then, to pray, that His will may be done on earth, as it is done in heaven; and how should you think it is done in heaven ?" " I think," said Ellen, " that in... | |
 | John Howe - 1832 - 566 pagina’s
...; we pray that the governing power of his kingdom may obtain and take phsce all the world over : we pray that his will may be done on earth, as it is done in heaven. We have particular inclinations and desires of our own ; these we are never to express... | |
 | Edward Hare - 1837 - 408 pagina’s
...agents; for they not only know, but do his will, and are set forth as an example to us, who are taught to pray that his " will may be done on earth, as it is done in heaven." They are spiritual substances : not clothed with flesh like us ; for " he maketh his... | |
 | John Goodwin - 1840 - 774 pagina’s
...John xvi. 23 ; 1 John v. 14. But the saints, according to the will of God, and in order to his glory, pray, that his will may be " done on earth, as it is in heaven," *. e. perfectly, for so it is done in heaven. Therefore his will is done perfectly on earth... | |
 | Philip Wood - 1849 - 348 pagina’s
...it is in opposition to his will when we do not labour and exert ourselves to counteract it. When we pray that " His will may be done on earth as it is in Heaven ;" we ought to know that his will is that all should be saved ; that noL one should perish.... | |
 | Leopold von Ranke - 1851 - 742 pagina’s
...behest, as absot the Christian, aecording to the Seriptures, considers himself bound to 'Jo '", and to pray that his will may be done on earth as it is in heaven. — Ta. lutely as the God's will, a tion were much more important. First of all, whether... | |
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Angels, it shows us, that we are to imitate it as far as our Nature will allow, and to stop at no Degrees short of it, but such as we cannot possibly reach. 
