 | Adelaide Leaper NEWTON - 1850 - 256 sidor
...share in his joy. But here this happy blessed season closes. We know no uninterrupted communion yet. By reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright, and one chief part of our discipline consists in " the trial of our faith." It must be sifted to prove... | |
 | Anna Delicia Hook - 1851 - 414 sidor
...doubts and difficulties, and there will be a great calm. G0D, who knowest us to be set in the :s. v^ midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot stand upright : Grant to us such strength and protection as may support us in all dangers, and carry... | |
 | William Scoresby - 1851 - 250 sidor
...to those things which mankind are prone to fail in, and as to results in life in which it is found " that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright," — I never recollect, in his own case, his excusing them, or expressing views derogatory to Divine... | |
 | William Jackson (Vicar of Heathfield.) - 1851 - 612 sidor
...God know us ' to be set in the midst of?' Alfred. ' Many and great dangers.' Miss W. Yes, and that t by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot' — ? ' Always stand upright,' the boys continued. Miss W. We don't stand upright because we are — what ? No. 12. M All. Frail.... | |
 | Richard Phayre - 1853 - 80 sidor
...punished for our offences, may be mercifully delivered by Thy goodness, for the glory of Thy Name. Thou knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great...nature we cannot always stand upright ; grant to us therefore such strength and protection, as may support us in all dangers, and carry us through all... | |
 | 1853 - 98 sidor
...in the midst of so many and great dangers," is therefore ail acknowledgment of his Omniscience ; and that by reason of the frailty of our nature, we cannot always stand upright, is a confession of our true condition ; the expression, " we cannot stand upright, because of our frailty,"... | |
 | Thomas Legh Claughton (bp. of St. Albans.) - 1853 - 326 sidor
...thoughts) by Jesus Christ." Rom. ii. 16. T. Can we escape the dangers about us by ourselves ? S. No. " By reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright." T. What do we mean by the " frailty of our nature T S. Our weakness and inclination to sin (ie infirmities),... | |
 | Family prayers - 1854 - 302 sidor
...of this life, but may all our labour of body and mind be undertaken with an eye to thy glory. Thou knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great...our nature, we cannot always stand upright : grant that this day we fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger. Keep in our minds a constant... | |
 | Thomas Henry Lane Fox - 1854 - 172 sidor
...in the midst of so many and great dangers," is therefore an acknowledgment of his Omniscience ; and that by reason of the frailty of our nature, we cannot always stand upright, is a confession of our true condition ; the expression, " we cannot stand upright, because of our frailty,"... | |
 | Christian calling - 1855 - 274 sidor
...Ma'am." She found in her Prayer-Book the Collect for the Fourth Sunday after Epiphany, which begins, " O God, Who knowest us to be set in the midst of so...frailty of our nature, we cannot always stand upright." " It seems just meant for me," she said. " I remember I was quite struck when I came upon it one day... | |
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GOD, who knowest us to be set in the midst of so many and great dangers, that by reason of the frailty of our nature we cannot always stand upright... 
