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The Domestic Altar; A 6 Weeks' Course of Morning and Evening Prayers [
The Domestic Altar A 6 Weeks' Course of Morning and Evening Prayers Author:William Smith General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1817 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, unto him be glory in the church, by Christ Jesus, through all ages, world without end. -- . Amen. ! ' . " ' - . . i'1''.' - (.: "i '.' ' V '. . ' - .;.-:.;..: .1 : .- .; .-4 .'. chapter{Section 4 FIRST WEEK. THURSDAY MORNING. ; O Lord God, that created the heavens and formed the earth, permit us this morning to use thine own words. " I, the Lord, speak in righteousness; and I said not unto the seed of Jacob, seek ye me in vain." We would take encouragement from this, as also from the more express declaration of thy servant -- " The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him." We pray for that preparation of the heart, which is needful for us, and which, with the answer of the tongue, alone cometh from God. [It is said in Scripture, that those who come to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Never will we doubt one moment of thy existence, O God! but daily see, and admire thee, in all the works of thy hands, and in all those perfections, which thou hast most gloriously displayed in the word of thy grace. The Lord is the maker of all things. By thy word alone the heavens were made; and all their host by the breath of thy mouth. Through faith, we. understand, that the worlds also were framed by the word of God; so that things which are seen, were not made of things which do appear. And thou, even thou, O Lord alone, hast not only made the heavens, with all their host; and the earth, and al...« less