...pleased thee to deliver this our sister out of the miseries of this sinful world ; beseeching thee, that it may please thee of thy gracious goodness shortly...number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom." * * In what world was I living when a man (calling himself a man of God) could stand up publicly and...

...oitr Iroiher were by some thought to countenance prayer for the dead, on * m the true faith of his holy name, may have our " perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and " soul, in his eternal and everlasting glory." It has been objected to this prayer, that to giv« thanks for the...

...prospect of futurity ! Transporting thought !' «Lord, * we beseech Thee, that we, with all those who are « departed in the true faith of Thy holy name,...everlasting glory through Jesus Christ our * Lord !'f The unbounded extent of the virtue of the blood of Christ, and the Omnipotence of His Spirit, are...

...course in. faith, do now rest from their labours. And we beseech thee, that we, with all those who are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may...consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in thv eternal and everlasting gl°rvi tfirough Jesus Christ our Lord. Лтт. О MERCIFUL God, the Father...

...pleased thee to deliver this our brother out of the miseries of this sinful world ; beseeching thee that it may please thee, of thy gracious goodness,...number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom. APPENDIX IV. ACCOUNT OF THE SUBSCRIPTION OF THE CONVOCATION TO TUB ARTICLES OP RELIGION, IN 1604. THE...

...their course in faith, do now rest from their labours. And we beseech thee, that we, with all those who are departed in the true faith of thy holy name, may...everlasting glory, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. O MERCIFUL God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life ; in...

...God to hasten His kingdom, " that we, with all those •who are departed in the true faith of God's holy name, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul.'" We have carefully avoided the controverted question of Prayers for the Dead, but we may be allowed...

...may well enough be understood to imply the Dead as well as the Living : for we pray (as it is now) that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of God's holy name, may have our perfect consummation and vliss ; which is not barely a supposition, that...

...all the elect people of God." In the burial service is the following petition, — "beseeching thee, shortly to accomplish the number of thine elect, and to hasten thy kingdom." If I mistake not, these phrases are very similar to those often used by Calvinists, and why should...

...perturbations shall close upon us, we too may die in the Lord : and, finally, with all His faithful people, may have our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in his eternal and everlasting glory. UNITED FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY. FROM the Union Mission we have...