A Method for Prayer01 Matthew Henry (continued)
hands, eternal in the heavens. Job 30:23. Luke 2:26, 29. 2
And give us to know that our redeemer lives, and that though after our skins, worms destroy these bodies, yet in our flesh we shall see
God; whom we shall see for ourselves, and our eyes shall behold, and not another. Job 19:25, 26, 27.
15. UPON OCCASION OF A MARRIAGE Give to those that marryto marry in the Lord; and let the Lord Jesus by his grace come to the marriage and turn the water into wine. 1
Corinthians 7:39. John 2:1, 2, 9.
Make them helps meet for each other, and instrumental to promote one another's salvation, and give them to live in holy love, that they may dwell in God, and God in them. Genesis 2:18.
1 Corinthians 7:16. 1 John 4:16.
Let the wife be as a fruitful vine by the side of the house, and the husband dwell with the wife as a man of knowledge; and let them dwell together as joint heirs of the grace of life, that their prayers be not hindered. And make us all meet for that world where they neither marry, nor are given in marriage. Psalm 128:3. 1 Peter 3:7.
16. UPON OCCASION OF THE ORDAINING OF MINISTERS Let the things of God be committed to faithful men, who may be able also to teach others, and make them such burning and shining