...them to be denied or deemed useless, but both to be gratefully acknowledged, used, and improved. ' That if we ask we shall receive; if we seek we shall find; and if we knock it shall b= opened unto us.' That a very great and important work is set before us, which we are called...

...For bring a sincere desire directed to God* and terminated upon him, and our Saviour hath assured us, that if we ask, we shall receive; if we seek, we shall find ; if we knock, it shall be opened to us, and even in this very kind : look into the context of that...

...encouragements suitably adapted to all circumstances ; and the most positive promises and assurances, that if we ask we shall receive; if we seek, we shall find; and if we knock, the door will be opened unto us. Search, then, the Scriptures ; patiently meditate therein, and offer up fervent...

...order our whole cause before him, and fill our mouth with arguments. And he gives us the assurance that, " if we ask, we shall receive ; if we seek, we shall find; if we knock, it shall be opened to us." In the wonders of his condescension, if I may so speak, he...

...shall your Father which is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?' Here, then, is a promise, that if we ask, we shall receive; if we seek, we shall find, if we knock, it shall be opened unto us; and it restricts us to no particular kind of blessings —...

...and ruined state. We thank thee that there is a mercy-seat to which we are invited to come, assured that if we ask we shall receive, if we seek we shall find, and if we knock the door of mercy shall be opened before us. May we therefore offer to thee the prayer of faith as disciples...

...participation of all those blessings which ho came to dispense ; assuring us, at the same time, (hul if we ask we shall receive, if we seek we shall find. And, from the Father of our spirits, we hear the divinely paternal request— a request, which, if our eoul...

...For bring a sincere desire directed to God, and terminated upon him, and our Saviour hath assured us, that if we ask, we shall receive; if we seek, we shall find ; if we knock, it shall be opened to us, and even in this very kind : look into the context of that...

...effectual our own resolutions and endeavours ; and is it not an encouragement sufficiently animating, that if we ask, we shall receive — if we seek, we shall find 1 Brethren, it behooves us to consider how great will be our guilt, if, when the powerful grace of...

...And it should be sought with expectation of good speed and without despair, remembering we are told, if we ask we shall receive ; if we seek, we shall find ; if we knock, it shall be opened unto us ; and that our heavenly Father will much more readily give...