...fasting, but all to no purpose, Isa. lviii. 2, 3. Bodily exercise profiteth little before God, who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. II. I am next to render the reasons of the point, That works may be done in service to God, that are...

...for these people to get anything like a correct idea of a simple, spiritual worship, or of a God who is a spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Their minds have been so long enthralled in the debasing superstitions of idolatry, that all their...

...have some or all of these feelings at the time we are making it, otherwise it is but a form of words. GOD is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. It is also necessary that our prayer should be made in faith, — that is to say, that we should believe,...

...unless the spring be purified by Divine grace, tho waters flowing from it must be corrupt. We know that God is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. Can you, dear sir, suppose that that great body of mon who are by those of your persuasion denominated...

...Bengal too is now beginning to manifest the effects of Edueation. That ' an idol is nothing;' that God is a Spirit and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth ; are truths that the people, to a large extent, are certainly beginning to feel. And so ripe and prepared...

...childhood were deep and abiding. She seems very early to have had a clear view of the nature of prayer. " God is a spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth," was something more to her than a mere sentence to be read in Scripture. When she was twelve years of...

...unmeaning ceremonies and phantasms, which distract thought, and unfit the mind for the worship of him who is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. The Church of Rome places her great reliance upon this sort of teaching, and her, religion is in keeping...

...policy—disregarding the dictates of the lively oracles, and sanctioning the debasement of the worship of Him who is a spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. But the responsibility for all this recoils largely on the constituency of the country. The electors...

...the Godhead. It cannot be too plainly and too forcibly urged on the mind, that mere formality is not worship. God is a spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth. God says of the Israelites, who profaned his ordinances by their hypocritical observance : When ye...

...eyes from you ; yea, when ye make many prayers I will not hear : your hands are full of blood d." " God is a Spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and in truth • :" and to those who so worship him, is his promise of acceptance confined : " Then shall ye call...