 | Granville Sharp - Law - 1788 - 236 pages
...nature, we cannot always fland upright ; Grant to us fuch ftrength, and protedtion, as may fupport us in all dangers, and carry us through all temptations, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord. Amen. (Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany.) Or this (5thly.) O GOD the protector of all them that truft... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...those ancient collects which, through God's good providence, have been preserved for our use, — " О God, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many...our nature we cannot always stand upright ; grant," &c. " О Lord, we beseech thee to keep thy Church, that they who do lean only upon the hope of thy... | |
 | 1842
...is soon 12 LINES ON THE DEATH OF AN INFANT. moved to pity, when we bring this complaint before him, that " by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright." 2. But it becomes us not for ever to lie down, bemoaning our sad weakness. We must vigorously betake... | |
 | 1814
...to " leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness." (Prov. ii. 13.) And though, by reason of the frailty of our nature, we cannot always stand upright, yet blessed are those who, by the assistance of divine grace, so resist the many temptations of the... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...The Fourth Sunday after the Efiifihany, The Collect. OGOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst oi so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty...through all temptations, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Eftutle. Rom. xiii. 1. LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers , for there is no... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...servant was healed in the self-same hour. The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. The Collect. OGod, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and...through all temptations, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. Rom. xiii. 1. LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...troubles, and for the purpose of exciting confidence in the prayer which we afterwards offer. " God knoweth us to be set in the midst " of so many and great dangers, that we cannot " always stand upright." That our spiritual dangers are " many and " great," is too evident... | |
 | George Pretyman - Calvinism - 1811 - 614 pages
...which relate to this nice and delicate subject (z). In one collect (a), however, we pray thus : " O God ! who knowest us to be set in the midst of so...all dangers, and carry us through all temptations ;" which words imply, that though we cannot always avoid sin, yet the frailty of our nature does not... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...The necessity intended is then not that of compulsion. ' O God, who knowest us ' to be in the aaidst of so many and great dangers, ' that by reason of...of our nature, we cannot ' always stand upright.'* " Ye cannot do the things " that ye would."3 Here a necessity of coming short at least of sinless obedience,... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...servant was healed in the self-same hour. The fourth Sunday after the Epiphany. The Collect. OGod, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and...through all temptations ; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. Rom. xiii. 1. LET every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no... | |
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GOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright... 
