 | Church year sermons - 1860 - 902 pages
...definition of the nature of prayer comes home to us in full force. " When ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking '." Then is it that the form, which He Himself dictated to those who would pray, rises unbidden... | |
 | Mary Matilda Howard - 1860 - 406 pages
...God. Another mistake about prayer is then pointed out. " But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." It is not all repetitions which are here condemned, but vain repetitions, repetitions which... | |
 | Samuel B. Smith - Bible - 1862 - 270 pages
...thy Father who seeth in secret, will 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."—... | |
 | Johann Heinrich D. Zschokke - 1863 - 384 pages
...you express no thought or wish of your own. " When ye pray," says Jesus, " use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." (Matt. vi.. 7.) No ; only the prayer which comes from the depths of a moved heart, a heart... | |
 | Thomas Chalkley - Christian biography - 1866 - 986 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 you ask him."... | |
 | Francis STARR - Christian life - 1866 - 250 pages
...corners of the streets and in the synagogues, that they may be seen of men. 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.... | |
 | Jane Johnson - Catechisms - 1867 - 122 pages
...shall reward thee openly." Q. "What further did he say? A. " When ye pray, use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking." Q. "What is meant by entering into thy closet and shutting the door ? A. That language implies... | |
 | James Roberts Gilmore - Bible - 1867 - 290 pages
...your Father who sees in secret, will reward you openly. And when you pray, use not idle repetitions, as the heathen do ; for they think they shall be heard for their many words. Be not you, then, like them ; for Who pray standing on the corners of the streets. —... | |
 | Theology - 1869 - 580 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."... | |
 | Adin Ballou - Christianity - 1899 - 444 pages
...thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray, use not vain repetition 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."... | |
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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. 
