 | Georg Joachim Zollikofer - 1803 - 216 ページ
...difclofing to me in the Chrifrian doctrine, fo much light, encouragement, confolation, and happinefs. Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of Lights, and confequently Chriftianity — which imparts to us fuch juft and certain knowledge of thy nature and... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1805 - 192 ページ
...hope to enjoy proceed from the Supreme Being :— »-and in all, we entirely depend on his Providence. Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights. For the favors and bounties of God, in relation to the present life, we are earnestly and constantly... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 ページ
...swear to any thing, the performance is certain: he could as soon cease to be, as go from his word. " Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, in whom there is •no variableness, neither shadow of turning." (James j. 17.) Yea, and as if this... | |
 | John Brown - 1823 - 366 ページ
...intercourse is carried on by the communication of blessings, and the influence of the Holy Spirit. <f Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. God meeteth him that rejoiceth, and... | |
 | Georg Joachim Zollikofer - 1803 - 210 ページ
...confidence shall I look forward to death and an eternal world ! And shall I yet doubt, after all that my experience teaches me, whether this doctrine come...mercy. May no tormenting doubts, no tumultuous passions ever disturb so pure a spring, and make me distate these wholesome waters of life ! The most ardent... | |
 | Golden words - 1863 - 414 ページ
...great mercies, graces, and gifts which we have received at His hands. For we must acknowledge that " Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights," and is by His mercy freely given. Prayer generally may be divided into two parts, petition and thanksgiving... | |
 | William Morley Punshon - 1863 - 226 ページ
...native light above us ; we cannot gather any from any of the sources by which we are surrounded. " Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning." The Rhone and the Arve. There is an... | |
 | 1872 - 502 ページ
...containeth all, Ignatius, Patriarch of Antioch, the Apostolic Throne, who is Elias the humble. PEACE. Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of Light ; not through any that willeth, nor through any that runneth, but through the merciful God. [LS]... | |
 | Churchman - 1877 - 434 ページ
...great mercies, graces, and gifts, which we have received at His hands. For we must acknowledge that " every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights," and is by. His mercy freely given. Prayer generally may be divided into two parts, petition and thanksgiving... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1885 - 1120 ページ
...no native light above us ; we cannot gather «ny from any of the sources by which we are surrounded. "Every good and perfect gift cometh down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there a DO variableness, neither shadow of taming." Ibid. •;:•;:-: ISTI AN --Masters... | |
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