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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LORD'S DAY MORNING. FOR GRACE TO IMPBOVE SABBATH HEUVnjE Almighty and most merciful Father, who hast given us thy Sabbaths to be a sign betwixt Thee and us, and a foretaste and sure earnest of the eternal Sabbath which yet remains for thy people; we come to Thee in the name of thy Son Jesus Christ, that Son of Man, who is Lord of the Sabbath, and beseech Thee to assist us to keep this day holy, and not to receive thy grace in vain. Our privileges indeed are great: thy house is ready and open to us; thy ministers wait to instruct us; thy people come together: give us to discern that every Sabbath is a gracious opportunity for good; a sacred talent to be occupied for Thee. We are indeed so sinful and so weak that we can do nothing of ourselves, but must in everything look to Thee for grace and strength. If Thou do not give us the spirit of prayer, we are so alienated from Thee that we shall approach Thee only with a solemn mockery of holy words, while our hearts are full of worldliness. If Thou do not give us the spirit of hearing, we are so sunk in sin, that our minds will be wandering after every vanity. O Lord, Thou canst give, and we know that when we ask in faith, Thou wilt give unto us an understanding, a believing, a loving, and an obedientheart. Fail not thus to bless us now. The good which we would, we do not; the evil which we would not, that we do. Our souls cleave to the dust. Bad habits have been long established in us, and we go on in the same evil course of mere formal worship, and continually find how hard it is for us, who are accustomed to do evil, to learn to do well. But Thou hast said, all things are possible with Thee; all things are possible to him that believeth: come then with thy mighty power and succour us, and through a living faith enabl...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217718448 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217718442 |
| Weight | 0.97 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.67 In |
| List Price | $19.75 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 298 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-09-01 |
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