| Thomas Brooks - 1820 - 264 pages
...secret prayer, he was often wUU God alone, as you may see in the following Scriptures. Matt. xiv. 23. " And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went...and when the evening was come, he was there alone." Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and... | |
| Joseph Milner, Rev. Isaac Milner - 1821 - 494 pages
...practical purposes ! We shall go back as far as the twenty-second verse of the fourteenth chapter. " Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship,...the other side, while he sent the multitudes away." It was not agreeable, we may suppose, to the disciples, to be deprived of the Saviour's company. But... | |
| 1822 - 570 pages
...departed into a solitary place, and there prayed." And Matthew says, ou »uniluT occasion, " when be hud sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain...and when the evening was come, he was there alone." Mark i. 35. Matt. xiv. 23. In these highly interesting situations the disciples were not present with... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 330 pages
...your bed, and be still. Ps. iv, 4. Our Lord's closet was a mountain, "when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray, and when the evening was come, he was there alone. Matt, xiv, 23. Peter's closet was the house top. " Peter went up upon the house top to pray, about... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - 312 pages
...your bed, and be still. Ps. iv, 4. Our Lord's closet was a mountain, " when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray, and when the evening was come, he was there alone. Matt, xiv, 23. Peter's closet was the house top. " Peter went up upon the house top to pray, about... | |
| E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...which is in secret, and thy Father, which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Matt. xiv. 23. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray i and when the evening was come he was there alone. Luke vi. 12. And it came to pass in those days... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 396 pages
...the behaviour of the multitude indicated a disposition to tumult. Matt. xiv. 22. " And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship,...before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitude away. And when he had sent the multitude away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray."... | |
| William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...Father, which is in secret ; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly." — " And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray." Matt. vi. 6. xiv. 23. II. Family prayer. The peculiar use of family piety consists in its influence... | |
| William Marshall Harte - 1824 - 426 pages
...Jesus Christ. And now to God, &o. LECTURE XXXIV. ST. MATTHEW xiv. 23. And when he, (that is, Jesus) had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain...and when the evening was come, he was there alone.. AFTER our blessed Lord had fed five thousand men, besides women and children with only five loaves,,... | |
| 1824 - 462 pages
...they -that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children. 22 IT And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship,...the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. Men's traditions. 23 And when he had sent the .multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to... | |
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