| Whole duty - 1777 - 582 páginas
...my doings without charity are nothing worth ; fend thy Holy Ghoft, and pour into my heart that moft excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whofoever liyeth is counted dead before thee. Grant this for thy only Son Jefus Chrift's fake. Amen. A Prayer... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1796 - 578 páginas
...peaceable difpofition. He will, if you fincerely afk for fo great a blefling, beftow on you that moft excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtue ; wherefore, from this hour, laying afide all malice, and all guile and hypocrljics, and all... | |
| 1803 - 490 páginas
...suppose, in some future day of judgment and recompence. By charity, however, St. Peter meant, ' that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues,' which induces us to give and forgive, to bear and forbear, to assist the bodily wants and spiritual... | |
| John Skinner (bp. of Aberdeen.) - 1803 - 568 páginas
...pray, in one of the collects of our church, that God would " pour into our hearts that moft excel" lent gift of charity, the very bond of peace, and " of all virtues," we are thereby put in mind, that the gift, which we thus implore from heaven, is given for the fole... | |
| Thomas Wilson - 1804 - 140 páginas
...neighbor for his fake ; they are nothing in the fight of God. My God, pour into my heart this moft excellent gift of charity,- the very bond of peace and of all virtue. Gal. vi. 10. Let us do- good unto oilmen. He, who feeks Jefus Chrift in his poor, lit -. order... | |
| William Gilpin - 1805 - 450 páginas
...excellent collect of our church, that he would fend his Holy Gho/t, and pour into our hearts that moft excellent gift of charity — the very bond of peace and of all •virtues; without which; wkofoever liveth is counted dead before him. . ) VOL. IV. SERMON VII. 2 SAM. XII. 7. i NATHAift SAID... | |
| James Bean - 1810 - 344 páginas
...holiness in the fear of GOD. " Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour" likewise " into our hearts that most excellent gift of ." charity, the very bond of peace, and of all " virtues; without which, whosoever liveth is " counted dead before thee." Let not us, •who have been contemplating a Saviour... | |
| Church of England - 1810 - 466 páginas
...doings without charity are nothing worth ; send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, the very bond of peace, and of all virtues; without which, whosoever liveth is counted dead before thee : Grant this for thine only Son Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 páginas
...indications of returning health ! " Lord, send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into " our hearts that most excellent gift of charity, " the very bond of peace and of all virtues !" We need not wonder at the awful declaration which is added to the foregoing eulogy, that " whosoever... | |
| John Bigland - 1811 - 588 páginas
...the bent of their affections ; the solid and substantial part of religion is apt to evaporate; and "charity, the very bond of peace and of all virtues, without which whosoever liveth is counted dead before God," is but too frequently made a sacrifice to those differences... | |
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