 | Margaret Woods - 1829 - 528 pages
...Christ. " They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."* Our Saviour does not pray that they should be " taken out of the world," but that " they should be kept from the evil." Many, even among our Society, have fallen the victims of the love of show and expense. This taste leads... | |
 | Margaret Woods - 1830 - 522 pages
...as I am not of the world."* Our Saviour does not pray that they should be " taken * John, xvii. 14. out of the world," but that " they should be kept from the evil." Many, even among our Society, have fallen the victims of the love of show and expense.' This taste... | |
 | 1832 - 424 pages
...also, the feebleness of their faith and their faltering courage, yet he would not pray, ' that they should be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil.' Neither would he have them fast as long as he was with them ; for he foresaw, that the days were coming,... | |
 | George Cole - 1838 - 238 pages
...labour. And therefore did our blessed Master, in his last prayer for his disciples, pray " not that they should be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil.";}; Now there are two sorts of evil * 1 Thess. i. 3. f 1 Pet. i. 5. } John xvii. 1/3. I 4 to which the... | |
 | Protestant association - 1855 - 404 pages
...orders, that they are out of the world in retirement : but the Lord Jesus prayed not that his people should be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil of it. The Apostle Paul says, — " I will that the younger women marry, bear children, guide the house."... | |
 | 1871 - 410 pages
...is not actually being in heaven. " No condemnation" does not mean »w> warfare. Jesus did not pray that His disciples should be taken out of the world, but that they should be " delivered from the evil." The Christian is a disciple, but he is in a military college, and is a... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1832 - 420 pages
...also, the feebleness of their faith and their faltering courage, yet he would not pray, ' that they should be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil.' Neither would he have them fast as long as he was with them ; for he foresaw, that the days were coming,... | |
 | 1844 - 738 pages
...needs some ground to rest upon, and the real life of our Saviour supplies it not. Christ did not pray that His disciples should be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil. He saith that He hath " sent them into the world." \\ Bonaventure, unable to ground his inference upon... | |
 | James Harington Evans - 1844 - 486 pages
...Ausust 20, 1846. U this prayer ! How frequently it recurs ! He prays for them, " not that they might be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil" of it; and then He prays more especially that they might be "sanctified through Thy truth." And here,... | |
 | Alexander Watson - 1845 - 528 pages
...well-meant hospitality both of Pharisees and Publicans. His very prayer for his disciples was, not that they should be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil. What HE thus prayed for the first disciples and for us, HE taught us likewise by His own example. HE... | |
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He prayed, not that his disciples should be taken out of the world, but that they should be kept from the evil. 
