NT-GOSPEL.filter - geneva prayers:

geneva@Matthew:6:7 @ But when ye pray, use not (note:)Long prayers are not condemned, but vain, needless, and superstitious ones.(:note) vain repetitions, as the heathen [do]: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

geneva@Mark:12:40 @ Which deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers. These shall receiue the greater damnation.

geneva@Luke:2:37 @ And she was widowe about foure score and foure yeeres, and went not out of the Temple, but serued God with fastings & prayers, night and day.

geneva@Luke:20:47 @ Which devour widows' (note:)By the figure of speech metonymy, «houses» is understood to mean the goods and substance.(:note) houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

geneva@John:17:1 @ These (note:)Jesus Christ, the everlasting high Priest, being ready to immediately offer himself up, by solemn prayers consecrates himself to God the Father as a sacrifice, and us together with himself. Therefore this prayer was from the beginning, is, and will be to the end of the world, the foundation and ground of the Church of God.(:note) words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, He first declares that as he came into the world so that the Father might show in him (being apprehended by faith) his glory in saving his elect, so he applied himself to that only: and therefore he desires from the Father that he would bless the work which he had finished. Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee: