 | John Wesley - 1791 - 716 sivua
...the Society in Snowsjields, (where he fpent the Idfl years of his lifjj can bear witnefs, that it was his meat and drink, to do the will of his heavenly Father. He was truly fervent in fpirit, (crving the Lord. In attending the meetings for prayer, and vifuing... | |
 | Alexander Macwhorter - 1803 - 524 sivua
...his name. Fourthly, this doflrine is manifefted from the example of |efus Chrift as Mediator. It was his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father. He glorified him upon earth. The conduct of all the glorified faints in heaves, the teftimony »fall... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1804 - 372 sivua
...father's love; but Christ, the great Redeemer, was all perfect, was perfection itself, and it was as his " meat and drink to " do the will of his heavenly Father." What then must have been the inconceivable love of God to men, when he spared not such a son, but "... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1804 - 316 sivua
...So assiduous was he in the discharge of his high commission, that, as he said, (John iv. 34.) it was his meat and drink to do the ,will of his heavenly father, and finish the work that he galie him to do. Raised as he was to a preeminence above all other men,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 518 sivua
...who mocked and reviled him on the cross'— His zeal for God was ardent and unremitted— It was " his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father"— Nor could any thing for one moment divert or deter him from the prosecution of his work— His meekness,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1810 - 516 sivua
...who mocked and reviled him on the cross'' — His zeal for God was ardent and unremitted — It was " his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father"— Nor could any thing for one moment divert or deter hirn from the prosecution of his work — His meekness,... | |
 | David Savile - 1810 - 440 sivua
...endeavours to abstain even from all appearance of evil, and, in imitation of our blessed Lord, counts it as his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father. He is " born of God," and you may easily see from his dispositions and deportment, that he is indeed... | |
 | David M'Clure, Elijah Parish - 1811 - 392 sivua
...himself, he had no time for self indulgence, or that torpid indolence, too common in the world. It was his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father, and what he did he accomplished with all his force. Were all youth trained to similar habits of diHgence,... | |
 | William Giles - 1811 - 268 sivua
...sublunary enjoyments. He should therefore certainly be iu all things exemplary: he should think it his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father; and especially when he considers that by separating himself from the corrupt conversation, amusements,... | |
 | 1819 - 492 sivua
...compare thyself with St Paul, and with the example and precepts of the Lord Jesus Christ. Was it not his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father ?'" On the twenty-second day of October, 1803, after much solemn preparation, he was ordained Deacon... | |
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O my soul, compare thyself with St. Paul, and with the example and precepts of the Lord Jesus Christ. Was it not his meat and drink to do the will of his heavenly Father ?" 
