 | Leonard Bacon - Massachusetts - 1874 - 558 pages
...present occasion," preaching — or, rather, teaching — from an apposite and ever-remembered text : " And there at the river by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast,...way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance."1 Prayers were offered "with great fervency, mixed with abundance of tears." The fasting... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - Massachusetts - 1874 - 546 pages
...present occasion," preaching — or, rather, teaching — from an apposite and ever-remembered text : " And there at the river by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast,...way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance."1 Prayers were offered "with great fervency, mixed with abundance of tears." The fasting... | |
 | Angelo Agostino Scotti (abp. of Thessalonica.) - 1874 - 610 pages
...salvation will make our journey prosperous to us." — Ps. Ixvii. 20. " Let us ask of the Lord our God a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance." — From 1 Esdr. viii. 2. MONDAY. THE VISITATION AND CARE OF THE SICK. I. IT IS SUITABLE TO PRIESTS.... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1876 - 694 pages
...the ship 1 Bradford, 59. Robinson preached from these words (Ezra viii. 21): " There, at the river Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves...and for our children, and for all our substance." This sermon has been represented by late writers, not without probability, but without authority, to... | |
 | John Abbot Goodwin - Congregationalism - 1879 - 726 pages
...that the Leyden people kept a farewell fast. Robinson's text was happy indeed for that Rhine valley: " And there at the river by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast,...our God, and seek of him a right way for us, and for all our children, and all our substance" (Ezra viii. 21). Bradford says that on this text the pastor... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - Autographs - 1880 - 1110 pages
...had a day of solleme humiliation, their pastor taking his texte from Ezra, viii : 21. And ther at y river, by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our Cod, and seeke of him a right •way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance [Genevan... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1882 - 418 pages
...prayer, as our Fast Day proclamations read ; ' then the pastor, taking his text from Ezra viii. 21, And there at the river, by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before God, and seek of Him a right way for us and for our children and for all our substance. Upon which... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1886 - 568 pages
...had a day of solleme humiliation, their pastor taking his texte from Ezra 8. 21, 'And there, at ye river, by Ahava, I proclaimed a fast, that we might humble ourselves before our God, and seeke of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance." Upon which he spente... | |
 | History - 1887 - 288 pages
...solemn fasting and prayer. Pastor Robinson preached to them " a good part of the day" on the text, "And there at the river, by Ahava, I proclaimed a...us and for our children and for all our substance," and " the rest of the time was spent in pouring out prayers to the Lord with great fervency mixed with... | |
 | William Deverell - Church history - 1887 - 350 pages
...the Pilgrims assembled together at the house of their pastor, which was also their church. " Let us humble ourselves before our God, and seek of Him a right way for us, and for our children, and for our substance," was the subject of his valedictory address. And his words of loving and sagacious counsel... | |
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God, and seeke of him a right way for us, and for our children, and for all our substance. 
