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Often appears with: prayer and worship · religious persecution and toleration · vologases of parthia · trust in god · the position of women · the fear of death · siege and fortification · sexuality and desire · samuel at mizpeh · righteousness for deliverance · religious visions and revelations · mixed marriage with unbelievers
Usually: exhortation (4) · narrative (2) · argument (1) · law or decree (1) · speech or oration (1) · crisis of belief (1) · injustice endured (1) · reconciliation (1) · temptation (1) · the test or trial (1)
“Be righteous then, and cast wickedness out of your souls, and by your worship supplicate the Divine Majesty with all your hearts, and persevere in the honor you pay to him; for if you act thus, you will enjoy prosperity; you will be freed from your slavery, and will get the victory over your enemies:” Josephus, Flavius, Antiquities of the Jews · precept
“The devil put in our mind the saving of our land and our goods, let us remember that we cannot save them long. If he frighten us with exile and flying from our country, let us remember that we be born into the broad world, not to stick still in one place like a tree, and that whithersoever we go, God shall go with us.” Sir Thomas More, Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation · precept
It gives guidance on marriage and abstinence, instructs believers not to separate except briefly for fasting and prayer, allows marriage for those who cannot abstain, and extends counsel on mixed marriages, servants, and virgins.
it? Now ye are full: now ye are made rich: ye reign as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we might reign with you. Me thinketh that God hath shewed us which are apostles, for the hindmost of all, as it were men appointed to death. For we are a gazingstock unto the world, and to the angels, and to men, we are fools for Christe's sake, and ye are wise thorow Christ: we are weak, and ye are strong.…
The wife says her child died, and the friar boasts he had a revelation that the child was borne to bliss, then launches into a sermon praising fasting and poverty as the proper way to make prayers effective.
but to few.” “Now, Sir,” quoth she, “but one word ere I go; My child is dead within these weeke’s two, Soon after that ye went out of this town.” “His death saw I by revelatioun,” Said this friar, “at home in our dortour.* *dormitory <10> I dare well say, that less than half an hour Mter his death, I saw him borne to bliss In mine vision, so God me wiss.* *direct So did …
With the Ark at Kirjath-jearim, Samuel urges the Israelites to pursue liberty through righteousness and sincere worship, then gathers them at Mizpeh for fasting, prayer, and offerings.
Hebrews' Victory Under The Conduct Of Samuel The Prophet, Who Was Their General. 1. Now while the city of Kirjathjearim had the ark with them, the whole body of the people betook themselves all that time to offer prayers and sacrifices to God, and appeared greatly concerned and zealous about his worship. So Samuel the prophet, seeing how ready they were to do their duty, thought this a proper time to speak to them, …
Izates’s subjects betray him with Arab king Abia, but Izates defeats the invasion, besieges Arsamus, and later faces renewed war from Parthian king Vologases, answered by fasting and prayer.
Contrivances of His Subjects Against Him, Went to Izates, and Was By Him Reinstated in His Government; as Also How Bardanes His Son Denounced War Against Izates. 1. But now Artabanus, king of the Parthians perceiving that the governors of the provinces had framed a plot against him, did not think it safe for him to continue among them; but resolved to go to Izates, in hopes of finding some way for his preservation b…
The speaker advises practical spiritual preparation—fasting, prayer, almsgiving—and interprets the Turks as “tormentors” under the devil, urging trust in God rather than despair about persecution.
run on toward them in all that ever he could, though there lay by the way, to kill us for malice, both all the Turk's tormentors and all the devils. And therefore, cousin, let us well consider these things, and let us have sure hope in the help of God. And then I doubt not but what we shall be sure that, as the prophet saith, the truth of his promise shall so compass us with a shield that we shall never need to fear…