| John Smalley - 1769 - 84 páginas
...account. " If there' be firft a willing " mind," we always fuppofe it ought to be " accepted, •' according to' that a man hath, and not according to *' that he hath not." But the want of a willing mind, or not being a mind to do well, is univerfally cohfidered as a crime,... | |
| Assembly of divines confess. and catech, Church of Scotland - 1773 - 570 páginas
...ever thrift and to ever. Amen. 2 Cor. viii. 12. For if there be firft a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. Heb. vi. i o. For God is not unrighteous, to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have ihewed... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1773 - 630 páginas
...And thus God judges of them, 2 Cor. viii. i2. Far if there be Jlrft a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 3. Ye are carried out of yourfclves into Jefus Chrift, Matth. xvi. 24. To a natural man his fweet felf... | |
| Francis Atterbury - 1774 - 340 páginas
...what the apoftle affirms, 2 Cor. yiii. 1 2. that " if there be firft a willing mind, it is accepted, according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not According to that a man hath," 1-."«, a fincere intenfion of doing good ; " and not according to that... | |
| Thomas Secker - 1792 - 624 páginas
...not attempt. Now, jphere there is a willing mind, it is accepted by Heaven, and fliould be by you, according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not f. And though perfons be able, yet fuch things as are not enjoined, and have not been cuftomary, you... | |
| 1804 - 664 páginas
...they are at his cotniuand; and *s it respects us, " It there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.» The promises we make to ourselves, of devoting «o the service of God, or our fellow-creatures, any... | |
| Luke Booker - 1794 - 340 páginas
...Performance alfo out of that which you have. For, if there be firft a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." Refpeding the Institution you are thus willingly affembled to fupport,— I can confcientioufly affure... | |
| 1795 - 316 páginas
...flames, for ftriving to do his duty as well as he can. If there be firft a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. And confequent!y, fuch as account themfelves moft unworthy, are thofe very perfons who are deeply fenfible... | |
| William Enfield - 1798 - 466 páginas
...; your virtue fhall not go without its reward: for ** where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not," Wheu When a Defire of plcafing becomes a Virtue. ROMANS xv. 2. Let every one of us pleafe his neighbour... | |
| William Gilpin - 1799 - 494 páginas
...let us continually gd ow our way rejoicing* $ VIII. Jf there be firjl a willing mind, it h accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not,—* Corinthians, 8. xii. OT. PAUL, in the chapter, from which the text ^ is taken, had been exhorting his... | |
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