...every prayer to God is a prayer of faith. It is not, and cannot be a prayer at all, without the belief that "God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently ivIO.i. cw2 tjt.jii OiUTiJiTri seek him." We may pray for faith ; we may pray for the spirit of prayer...

...records of divine revelation, and may thus by the blessing of God be brought to believe that he it, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.' The Report having been read, it was, on the motion of Paul Jordan, Esq. seconded by the Rev, Dr. Brown,...

...Gentiles' creed, Martha's creed, the Eunuch's creed, St. Peter's creed, St. Paul's creed ; " to believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that seek him diligently 1 :" " to believe b that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God," that " Jesus...

...rewards of a life to come ; for, says the same apostle, " He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Having stated these principles, he proceeds to show, that the ancient patriarchs were animated in all...

...It is the declaration of an inspired Apostle that, " He that cometh unto God, must believe " that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them " that diligently seek him ;" 3or, in other words, the reforming efficacy of any man's religion must depend on the firmness and...

...athirst for happiness in the enjoyment of God, " and of those pleasures which are at his right hand for evermore." He attends to religion, not that he...reasonable creature, formed for an immortal existence ; he aime, in this introductory scene, to insure feficity in the world to come. He " believes that God is,...

...God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted of him ;" and that "he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him ;" and therefore without faith none can please God : and that men shall be judged by that same law, which they were...

...latitude, to be the evidence of things not seen, and the substance of things hoped for, and a believing that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, and a looking for a better country, and for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God...

...: and in every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousnesses accepted of him. Believing that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him, is better than nothing, and than mere sin. * ART. xiv. Voluntary works, besides, over and above God's...

...how should we so do it without good persuasion of this reward ? He that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Oh ! then, what a joyful word should that be to us which is sent from God himself thus to guide, to...