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If it knows that it has asked according to His will and promises, and that it has come to and found Himself to give it, it does believe that it has received. "We know that He heareth us." There is nothing so heart-searching as this faith, "Believe that ye have received." As we strive to believe, and find we cannot, it leads us to discover what there is that hinders.
He guardeth this land and is liegeman unto Gelfrat. And cometh he not betimes, so call across the flood and say, ye hight Amelrich. He was a doughty here that; because of a feud did void this land. The ferryman will come when he heareth this name." Haughty Hagen bowed then to the dames; he spake no more, but held his peace.
"Damsel," saith the dwarf, "He may not flee away save he go afoot, for his horse is in my keeping." And Messire Gawain heareth well enough that which the damsels say, but he answereth them never a word. Thereupon they depart, and say: God give him an ill night, for an evil knight and a vanquished and recreant, and command the dwarf that he move not on any occasion.
"I fear so. Wilt thou pray for her, my father?" Abraham looked up in amazement. "A Christian ask the prayers of a Jew!" exclaimed he. "Why not?" replied Bruno. "Were not Christ and all His apostles Jews? And thou art a good and true man, my father. The God of Israel heareth the prayers of the righteous." "Canst thou account a Jew righteous? one who believes not in thy Messiah?"
The Dictatus Papae asserts that the Pope's legates take precedence of all bishops in a council even though they may be of inferior rank, and Gregory VII applies to their authority the text "He that heareth you heareth me."
"But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her." Numbers xxx. 2-5. While the mother insisted on these topics, the lover in vain conjured the daughter to declare her own opinion and feelings.
Our Lord uses this very illustration when He says, 'He that heareth My Word, and believeth Him that sent Me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life. That is a great migration, is it not, from the condition of a corpse to that of a living man?
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst: The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Therefore put all things else away, and give thyself to the Creator, to be well pleasing and faithful to Him, that thou mayest be able to attain true blessedness. Psalm lxxxv. 8. What the truth saith inwardly without noise of words Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth. I am Thy servant; O give me understanding that I may know Thy testimonies. Incline my heart unto the words of Thy mouth.
Wherefore he counselleth: Look neither too much up, nor down at all, But, forward stepping, strive no more to fall. And the advice is excellent; but, as is again said: The preacher preacheth, and the hearer heareth, But comfort first each function requireth. And 'wisdom to a hungry stomach is thin pottage, saith the shrewd reader of men.
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