Holy Writ. FAULTS. Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. FEARS. JAMES, V. Fear is nothing else but a betraying of the succours which reason offereth. FIRE. WISDOM OF SOLOMON, xvii. God maketh fire come down from Heaven on the earth, in the sight of men. REVELATION, xiii. FIRMAMENT. God said, Let there be a firmament, and it was so; and God called the firmament Heaven. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of Heaven, to give light upon the earth and it was so. GENESIS, i. The Heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth His handy-work. PSALM XIX. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon the earth; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also. GENESIS, i. Shakespeare, FORGIVENESS. When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness. KING LEAR, v. 3. I as free forgive as I would be forgiven. HENRY VIII. ii. 1. I pardon him, as God shall pardon me. RICHARD II. v. 3. God forgive them that so much have sway'd Your majesty's good thoughts away from me. 1 HENRY IV. iii. 2. FORSWEAR. God forbid your grace should be forsworn. 3 HENRY VI. i. 2. Ay, he forswore himself,-which Jesu pardon! FORTRESS. RICHARD III. i. 3. God is our fortress: in whose conquering name, FURNACE. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself. 1 HENRY VI. ii. 1. HENRY VIII. i. 1. GARDEN. God saw him when he was hid in the garden. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, v. 1. Holp Writ. FORGIVENESS. To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also; for if I forgave any thing, for your sakes forgave I it, in the person of Christ. 2 CORINTHIANS, ii. Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive them that trespass against us. Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. LITURGY. FORSWEAR. LUKE, vi. Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths. FORTRESS. MATTHEW, V. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer ; so shall I be saved from mine enemies. 2 SAMUEL, Xxii. FURNACE. The King commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. * * * The flames of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego. GARDEN. DANIEL, iii. And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God, amongst the trees of the garden. GENESIS, iii. Shakespeare, GATES OF HEAVEN. Then, Heaven, set ope thy everlasting gates, 2 HENRY VI. iv. 9. Open Thy gate of mercy, gracious God; My soul flies through these wounds to seek out Thee. 3 HENRY VI. i. 4. GENTLE. He to-day that sheds his blood with me GIFTS (SPIRITUAL). How he solicits Heaven, HENRY V. iv. 3. Himself best knows; but strangely-visited people, All swoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures ; Put on with holy prayers: and 't is spoken, To the succeeding royalty he leaves The healing benediction. With this strange virtue, He hath a Heavenly gift of prophecy; And sundry blessings hang about his throne, MACBETH, iv. 3. Holy Writ. GATES OF HEAVEN. Lift up your heads, O ye gates: and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. PSALM Xxiv. O go your way into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. PSALM C. Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may go in to them, and give thanks unto the Lord. PSALM CXviii. GENTLE. A virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation and gentle in condition. 2 MACCABEES, XV. GIFTS (SPIRITUAL). There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all; for to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge, to another faith, to another the gifts of healing, to another the working of miracles, to another prophecy. 1 CORINTHIANS, Xii. |