[PDF] Forms Of Prayer For Christian Worship As Used At The Old Meeting Great Yarmouth To Which Are Added Family Prayers Edited By H S Ie Henry Squire Lp eBook

Author : Thomas Sadler
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230289830

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 edition. Excerpt: ... not also for others. Without provision for what we have to ask for those who are dear to us, the body of prayer would to my mind be wanting in one of its chief members, or perhaps I should rather say, that the want would be of a kind which would nearly touch the heart; for when we pray for ourselves, it is often not the best part of us that prays, -- it is often our fear, our desire for a smooth path and a sheltered lot, our shrinking from danger, from pain, from difficulty, and in such instances the fervour of our petitions is in proportion to the weakness of the flesh, and not to the willingness of the spirit to do and bear God's will; but when we pray for others, it is our love that prays; then most truly of all may it be said that "out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh." Now, I believe the misgiving about intercessory prayer has arisen in a great measure from associations with a word. The literal meaning of " to intercede" is to go between; but the meaning we usually attach to the word is that of coming between two parties who are estranged from one another and hostile to one another, to bring them together. By an act of intercession we usually understand an act by which, when two persons are at variance, one who is the friend of both tries to put an end to their difference and establish a relation of kindness and goodwill between them. By counsels of reconciliation he seeks to overcome their unwillingness to have anything more to do with one another, unless it be as enemies. But there has been of late a strong and growing feeling, in which I heartily rejoice, of the falsehood and injustice of those notions of God in which he is represented as at enmity with mankind, as hardened against them by their...

Author : Margaret Aston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1994 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1316060470

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Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.