| Benjamin Allen - 1822 - 138 sivua
...under all circumstances. Blessed be God! we are invited to approach the throne, with the assurance that Our " Heavenly Father" will " give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him."f That the Holy Spirit, while one in essence with the Father and the Son, exists distinct... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 584 sivua
...wisdom for the attaining and preserving this liberty, consists in the acting of faith on that promise of our Saviour, that our heavenly Father will ' give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him' of him. When sin in any instance, by any temptation, urgeth for power and rule in us, we are... | |
| William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 346 sivua
...means of deciding it without the gift of inspiration. We know, on the authority of Christ himself, " that our heavenly Father will give the holy Spirit to them that ask him ;'" and, on that of his apostles, " if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart,... | |
| George D'Oyly - 1827 - 532 sivua
...fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much '; that to those who ask, it shall be given ; ni that our heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask Him ; we arrive at something more than a conjectural inference; we arrive at a positive 1 James... | |
| Edward Patteson - 1828 - 266 sivua
...we are not ignorant where to apply for succour. We have the assurance of our blessed Lord himself, that our " heavenly Father will give the holy Spirit to them that ask him:" 3 and we know that he is faithful who promised. For this aid, it is his will—we may say,... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 sivua
...shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him f plainly intimating, not only that our heavenly Father will ' give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him,' but also that he will withhold the blessing from them, that ask him not. The words of St.... | |
| Charles Bridges - 1832 - 342 sivua
...Jesus for it — " shall know of the doctrine." Consider also the free and general promise of Christ, that " our heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him." l Suppose yourself to have been in the state of mind of the text just mentioned, and to have... | |
| Richard Cattermole, Henry Stebbing - 1835 - 368 sivua
...we shall then be secure of the assistance of God's Holy Spirit, being assured by our Lord himself, that our Heavenly Father ' will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him,'1 as certainly and readily as any father will give good things to his children that ask him... | |
| David Aitchison - 1839 - 156 sivua
...church now observed and practised by her bishops and governors also." Our blessed Redeemer hath promised that our heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him. Shall, then, the servant of Christ, when he standeth ministering at the baptismal font, or... | |
| Daniel Isaac, John Burdsall - 1840 - 548 sivua
...other, after the interruption, received the Holy Ghost directly from God. But this spoils all; for admit that "our heavenly Father will give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him ; " (Luke xi. 13 ;) and it must be very foolish to apply to bishops for it, when it is so very... | |
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