...God. This is properly followed by supplications for ourselves. We meekly beseech our heavenly Father to raise us from the death of sin, unto the life of righteousness, and that when we shall depart this life, we may rest in Christ : we pray to be quickened, and made...

...vouchsafe his holy Spirit to enlighten our understandings, to enable us to apply it to our hearts, and to raise us " from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness ;" for the sake of Him who died and was buried, and rose again for us. The subject presents two points...

...Lord," who " is not here ; for he is risen, as he said!" He is risen : and may the Spirit of God " raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness." He is risen: and may we, who sleep, " awake and arise from the dead that Christ may give us light!"...

...malice of the devil, or by our own carnal will and frailness; continue us in the unity of the Church, raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness; and vouchsafe, we beseech thee, to direct, sanctify, and govern, both our hearts and bodies in the...

...not to be sorry, as men without hope, for them that sleep in him ; We meek] y beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of...that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, as our hope is this our brother doth ; and that, at the general Resurrection in the last day,...

...everlasting glory." Another prayer in the same service contains this petition, — " We meekly beseech thee to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of...that when we shall depart this life we may rest in him." The ignorance or the disingenuousness must have been great which could permit a minister of the...

...well as the whole service, is expressly designed for the living. " We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness," or in other words, we are dead in trespasses and sins ; we have naturally no life in us ; Adam's nature...

...Numb. xxi. 8, 9. « Ephes. ii. 1. 7 Gal. iii. 13. priate petition, " We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness."7 Jesus Christ came to save the lost, and the provision made to save is sufficient ;...

...whosoever liveth, and believeth in Him, shall not die eternally; we meekly beseech Thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of...that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in Him ; and that, at the general resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in Thy sight...

...how appropriate and heart-affecting the concluding prayer, — ' We meekly beseech thee, O Father, to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of...that when we shall depart this life, we may rest in him, (our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the resurrection and the life,) as our hope is this our brother...