The Lord's Prayer (Classic Reprint): Being the Last Eight Discourses: Being the Last Eight Discourses (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Clarke, James Freeman

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ISBN 10: 1330683153 ISBN 13: 9781330683156

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from The Lord's Prayer

And it contains all that is essential in prayer. It asks for the universal reign of love and truth it asks for a heaven below, like the heaven above; it asks also that we shall be so fed and purified and upheld that we may do our part loyally and well toward this consummation; it asks for daily strength for daily needs. And leaves all else to God.

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Excerpt from The Lord's Prayer: Being the Last Eight Discourses

Jesus objected to the long prayers of the Jews and the vain repetitions of the heathen. This prayer avoids both errors it is short, and it contains no repetitions. But neither his precept nor his example has prevented his followers from relapsing into both faults. The Puritans prayed by the hour-glass, one or two hours at a time: and I recollect that in our own churches one of the prayers in public worship was known as The Long Prayer, and it would have been considered an impropriety if it were materially shortened. We also have repetitions in Christian prayers. The Ave Maria in the Rosary is commanded to be repeated a hundred times, and even the Lord's Prayer itself is to be repeated fifteen times. The evil of such repetitions is that the words are regarded as formulas, and supposed to have a kind Of magical power apart from their meaning. They are then not offered in spirit nor in truth they are not the prayer of the spirit nor of the understanding.

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Excerpt from The Lord's Prayer: Being the Last Eight Discourses

The Lord's Prayer, given by Jesus to his disciples at their request, stands at the head of the worship of mankind. It is repeated by children at their mother's knee; it is uttered in the faltering accents of age; it soothes the ear of the dying; It comforts the solitary mourner; it is chanted every day in the liturgies of nations. However often this prayer may be repeated, it never grows old, is never left behind in the advance of thought. It is as dear to the heart of the sage as to the most ignorant of mankind. The sinner, who dares not utter any words of his own, gathers peace from the words which remain in his heart from his innocent childhood. Divine form, which has no formality; endless repetition, always fresh and new!

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1330683153
• ISBN 13: 9781330683156
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 99
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