| Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1821 - 574 pages
...Father of lights. His glory shines in it, and the Lamb it the light thereof. Ver. 12. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers : but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. HERE the apostle, gives as the true reason of that truth... | |
| William Melmoth - 1821 - 168 pages
...temporal prosperity is so likely to be the Lot and portion of the religious man is, because the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil, 1 Pet. iii. 12. His very evident from the whole tenor... | |
| Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...they speak no guile. Let him eschew evil and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers : but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers... | |
| John Thorp - 1821 - 336 pages
...graven thee upon the palms of my hands, thy walls are continually before me." No, verily, " the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and His ears are open unto their prayers." However unmindful He may seem to be .of the distress and danger which threaten them, when the tempest... | |
| Whole duty - 1821 - 566 pages
...the desires of those that fear him : he also will hear their prayers, and will save them : the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayers. And our Saviour says to his apostles, Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will... | |
| Henry Kollock - 1822 - 510 pages
...also when Peter had treated on the same subject, he enforces all by this consideration, (1 Pet. iii. 12.) " The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers." That is, act according to these directions, if you expect that those prayers shall be answered which... | |
| W. F. LLOYD - 1822 - 178 pages
...Lord unto the wicked. (48 Is. 22.) 13. Does God protect the righteous and oppose the wicked 1 The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. (1 Pet. 3, 12.) 14. " If the righteous scarcely be saved,... | |
| James Heaton - 1822 - 286 pages
...they speak no guile : let him eschew evil and do good ; let him seek peace and ensue it. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers ; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil." 1 Pet. iii. 10,— 12. Ps. xxxiv. 11,— 17. God has... | |
| Robert Leighton - 1822 - 576 pages
...Lights ; his glory shines in it, and the Lamb is the light thereof, Rev. xxi. 23. Ver. 12. For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers; but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. THE wisest knowledge of things, is to know them in their... | |
| Prayer (Book of common) (U.S. protest. episc. ch.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...my life ; and I will dwell in the (;i Eschew evil, and do good ; seek peace, and ensue it. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers. The countenance of the Lord But thy loving-kindness and is against them that do evil, to lOt.out the... | |
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