WE do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies. We are not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table. The Gospel Advocate - الصفحة 3761822عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Benjamin Dorr - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...that will never come. The language of true humility, the grace of all others most requisite, is, " We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful...same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy."* * It affords us great pleasure to strengthen these remarks by the testimony of so revered and beloved... | |
| Henry Woodward - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...and deed, against thy Divine Majesty ; provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us." " We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful...much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table." Which of you can, sincerely, before the searcher of hearts, take this pregnant language into his mouth... | |
| William Patrick Palmer - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 638
...to eat of that bread and drink of that cup." — Ibid. "We do not presume to come to this thy table, merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies." — Prayer before Consecration. ' " So is the danger great if we receive the same unworthily. For then... | |
| Frances S. Parker - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 100
...that entirely disclaims all title to human merit. " We do not presume to come to " this thy table most merciful Lord, trusting in our " own righteousness, but in thy manifold and great " mercies, &e.* Ernest — ' From this evil principle which remains even in the regenerate,! we can only be completely... | |
| William Staunton - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...attributes or perfections which belong peculiarly to Him. Thus, in the Communion Service, we read, " But thou art the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy ;" that is, " it belongs to God, always to exercise mercy, and to forgive." Again, in one of the Collects... | |
| Hans Lietzmann - 1979 - عدد الصفحات: 792
...bread and wine, the Memorial which he hath willed for us. We do not presume to come to this Thy table, trusting in our own righteousness, but in Thy manifold...much as to gather up the crumbs under Thy table ; but hear us, O heavenly Father, we most humbly beseech Thee in the Name of Thy Beloved Son, who came not... | |
| William H. Willimon - 1984 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...does one of the prayers in the Communion service of the old Book of Common Prayer, that the faithful are "not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy Table"? Or in a more contemporary vein, is it theologically accurate to say that "God is a warm fuzzy to our... | |
| James F. White - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...and certainly the most visual, of Cranmer's metaphors occurs in the "Prayer of Humble Access": "We be not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table."7 Despite its allusion to Matthew 15:27, the prayer is original with Cranmer. Even modern Anglican... | |
| Ronald Claud Dudley Jasper, G. J. Cuming - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...kneel down and say in the name of all them that shall receive the Communion this prayer following. We do not presume to come to this thy table, O merciful...righteousness, but in thy manifold and great mercies; we be not worthy so much as to gather up the crumbs under thy table. But thou art the same Lord, whose... | |
| Howard Erskine-Hill - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 132
...Cup' and was rightly reminded of the next stage of the Communion Service after the general Confession: 'We do not presume to come to this thy Table, O merciful Lord, trusting in our own righteousness ...', which continues to speak of the Bread and the Cup that, in the Christian Creed, re-unite man... | |
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