 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - 1809 - 322 pages
...therefore perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect:" and our blessed Lord has taught us to pray that the will of God may be done on earth, as it is in heaven. We are all invited to this state of perfection; but how few, alas! endeavpur to Attain it... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 450 pages
...they do this, only because it is his will ; for this and no other reason. 10. When therefore we pray, That the " Will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven," the meaning is, that all the inhabitants of the earth, even the whole race of mankind,... | |
 | John Flavel - Providence and government of God - 1824 - 302 pages
...child. — Think how repugnant an unsubmissive temper is both to your prayers aud professions. You pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven ; and yet when it seems to cross your wills or interests, you struggle against it. You profess... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Atheism - 1826 - 284 pages
...therefore perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect :" and our blessed Lord has taught us to pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is- in heaven. We are all invited to this state of perfection ; but how few, alas ! endeavour to attain... | |
 | John Richards - 1827 - 466 pages
...the religion of angels, and of the spirits of the just glorified in heaven ; and therefore we pray that the will of God may be " done on earth as it is in heaven :" that is, so far as such imperfect creatures can do it, fully, cheerfully, unreservedly.... | |
 | American Temperance Society - Temperance - 1828 - 742 pages
...cheering with new expectations, and exciting all who are governed by them, to higher and holier efforts, that the will of God may be done on earth as it is done in heaven. A striking development of these principles has been made in the Temperance Reformation.... | |
 | Richard Mant - Apostles - 1828 - 634 pages
...should pray, and it is to be presumed that we accordingly make it the subject of our daily prayers, that " the will of God may be done on earth, as it is in heaven." The angels do his will perfectly in heaven : and if we would that it should be done also... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 606 pages
...their bright examples of goodness for your own imitation. Your Lord himself has taught you to pray, that the will of God may be done on earth, ' as it is in heaven.' You are not to regulate your practice by the defective standard of human righteousness,... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - Lord's Supper - 1828 - 464 pages
...and of good report," — that thus human nature may be beautified in its sentiments and actions, and that the " will of God may be done on earth as it is done in heaven." The whole of our Saviour's discourses, and all the exhortations of his Apostles, will... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1831 - 466 pages
...do this, only because it is his will ; for this and no other reason. 10. When, therefore, we pray, that the "will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven," the meaning is, that all the inhabitants of the earth, even the whole race of mankind,... | |
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Lord has taught us to pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is- in heaven. 
