 Scripture moveth us in sundry places to acknowledge and confess our manifold sins and wickedness, and that we should not dissemble nor cloak them before the face of Almighty God our heavenly Father; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and...  Memorial Volume of the Popham Celebration - Page 31by Rev. Edward Ballard - 1863Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 588 pages
...the exhortation reminds us, that although we ought at all times, even in our private supplications, humbly to acknowledge our sins before God; yet ought...chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together. Our Saviour hath laid a peculiar stress on joint prayers ; and made more especial promises to those... | |
 | William Malkin - Christianity - 1825 - 504 pages
...Almighty God our heavenly Father ; but confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart ; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same by his infinite goodness and mercy. Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1825 - 688 pages
...should ' confess our sins 1 Isa. xliv. 22. ' with a humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient ' heart, to the end that we may obtain forgiveness ' of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy. ' Spare thou them which confess their faults ; ' restore thou them that are penitent.' ' God ' hath... | |
 | George Haggitt - 1825 - 458 pages
...with an humble, mortified, and repentant sense of them, " to the end (as the exhortation sets forth) that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy." We confess our sins in order to obtain remission of them. " If we confess our sins, (says St. John)... | |
 | John Henry Howlett - Elocution - 1826 - 334 pages
...acknowledgment of our sins, is reserved for notice in the following sentence : " Although we ought at all times to acknowledge our sins before God, yet ought we most...chiefly so to do, when we assemble and meet together, &c." Therefore the expression, ' before the face of Almighty God,' signifies no more than before Almighty... | |
 | Charles Henery Lutwidge - 1828 - 94 pages
...God our heavenly Father ; but to confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart, to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and mercy f .' ' For' He is ' a merciful God, full of compassion, long-suffering, and of great pity 8 ;' ' who... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1828 - 408 pages
...thee, give us grace, at this time, to confess them with an humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by thy infinite goodness and mercy. — And this we beg through' Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. VOL. I.... | |
 | Church of England - 1829 - 668 pages
...In-art : to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the siime, by his infinite goodness and nu-rcy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge...assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great hem-tits that we have received at his hands, to set fortli his most worthy praiM-. to hear his most... | |
 | 1829 - 442 pages
...before God ; yet ought we chiefly so to do, when we assemble and neettogetber, to render thanks fol the great benefits that we have received at his hands, to set forth hi» most worthy praise, to hear his most loly word, and to ask those, tilings -"1.!! are requisite... | |
 | Robert Cox (M.A.) - 1830 - 152 pages
...God, our heavenly Father ; but to confess them with a humble, lowly, penitent, and obedient heart; to the end that we may obtain forgiveness of the same, by his infinite goodness and inercy. And although we ought at all times humbly to acknowledge our sins before God ; yet ought we... | |
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