| James Meikle - 1811 - 476 páginas
...port, having more noble things in view, life and liberty to defend, and enemies to subdue ; so, *? no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier." We are never out of danger while at sea ; for, though it be a time... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 páginas
...minister chosen of men only may for a time please men; but, if he is chosen of Christ, he will labour " that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier," 2 Tim. ii. 4. It being known that I was extremely poor, now and then a friend would offer me a shilling or two; which... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 páginas
...the king's bounty that is given. The apostle tells us that this servant of the Lord is a warrior : " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life." He that kneeled down to drink water at the river Jordan was sent back as not fit for the field, none... | |
| James Meikle - 1812 - 384 páginas
...with the affairs of the land, as we belong to thfe sea ; so must the saint not entangle himself in the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a spiritual soldier. 5. We are all maintained by the King ; so are all Christians by the throne of Heaven.... | |
| Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 páginas
...God. (#) Be not conformed to this world ; but be ye transformed by the. renewing of your mind. (y) No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may pleas* him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Thou therefore endure • hardness as a good soldier... | |
| Abraham Booth - 1813 - 452 páginas
...passage seems to have the force of a negative precept, respecting the christian pastor: No man thai warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. A pastor should be very cautious, not only of entering, unnecessarily, into stated secular employment;... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 páginas
...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himv.-lfwith the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath 0<xa. 13 chosen him to be a soldier. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate... | |
| Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1814 - 772 páginas
...holds of Satan. You know the service in which " you have enlisted : ' No man that warreth en"* tangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that " he may...please him who hath chosen him to be " a soldier.' Some, who once engaged in the " 1same cause, unfortunately desiring to be rich, " fell into ' temptation... | |
| Jacob Kerr - 1814 - 424 páginas
...least appeared so to be, that he might be eonsidered a soldier of Jesus Christ, in word and in deed. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath ehosen him to be a soldier.—2 Tim. ii, 4.. But he, unmindful of the foregoing text, strived for the... | |
| 1814 - 570 páginas
...able to teaeh others also. 3 Thou, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him, who hath ehosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not erowned exeept... | |
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