DISCOURSE: 1136 FASTING AND PRAYER Daniel 9:3. _I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes_. THE season of Lent has been long observed in the Church, as a time for peculiar fasting and prayer. By our Church has the appointment of it... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1137 DANIEL’S CONFESSION Daniel 9:3. _And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: and I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1138 HUMILIATION EXEMPLIFIED AND ENFORCED Daniel 9:3. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes; and I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the cove... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1139 THE ANSWER TO DANIEL’S PRAYER Daniel 9:17. O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and t... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 1140 THE TIME AND ENDS OF CHRIST’S ADVENT Daniel 9:24. _Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vis... [ Continue Reading ]