 | 310 pages
...the disciples, accompanied it with this special caution — " When yo pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him" !... | |
 | George Fox - 1803 - 436 pages
...Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him,'... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Devotional literature - 1805 - 192 pages
...and spiritual in our sacrifices of prayer and praise. " But when ye pVay, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask liim.... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1806 - 454 pages
...And a greater man than Solomon has said, " When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathens do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be ye not therefore, like unto them, for your Father knoweth what things you have need of before you ask... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1808 - 844 pages
...occasion, as recorded by St. Matthew, in his Gth chapter. " But when ye pniy, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking; be not ye therefore like unto them; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. After... | |
 | Thomas Chalkley - Christian life - 1808 - 582 pages
...seeth in secret shall reward thce openly.'' Verse 6. " But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." Verse 7. " Be not ye therefore like unto them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1840 - 586 pages
...internal motive;" therefore was the divine caution given, "when thou prayest, use no rain repetition as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." It is indispensable, then, that we be enabled to distinguish between the prayer which the... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pages
...impertinently, like the heathen, who think they shall be heard for their much speaking. 8. Therefore, Be not ye like them; for your Father knoweth what things ye need before ye ask him. 9. In this manner, therefore, pray ye: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 10. Thy... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. But when you pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." But this is not all ; our duties are thus rendered not vain only, but burdensome. When the... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pages
...prayers, we use vain repetitions, as is objected in Matt. vi. 7: When ye prat/, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. This is likewise levelled against giving the sacrifice of the lips more than the heart, as... | |
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But when ye pray use not vain repetitions as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them ; for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him. 
