| Jeremy Taylor - 1826 - 628 páginas
...cannot take away your poverty, but I can ease your spirit ; and " God accepts us" (saith the Apostle) " according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." Only as our desires are great, and our spirits are willing, so we shall find ways to make supply of... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1826 - 424 páginas
...had, whether we have much or little in our power. And where there is a willing mind, it is accepted, according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. If once our minds are brought to the Christian temper, to disregard trouble, inconvenience, and what... | |
| John William Fletcher - 1826 - 312 páginas
...Once more. Does not St. Panl's rnle hold in spiritnals as well as in temporals ? : 'It is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not.' Does onr Lord actnally reqnire more of believers than they can actnally do throngh his grace ? And... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 656 páginas
...late. But there is a duty of trading with a single talent. And if there be a ready mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. And this alone hath made me adventure the proposal of my thoughts about the nature, causes, and occasions... | |
| Thom Scott - 1826 - 520 páginas
...had, whether we have much or little in our power. And, where there is a willing mind, it is accepted, according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. If once our minds are brought to the Christian temper, to disregard trouble, inconvenience, and what... | |
| 1820 - 688 páginas
...capacity for discrimination is plead. Hut how run this be an excuse, when the demand of heaven is only according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. It is as reasonable, that an intellect relatively feeble should be exercised in the study of the bible,... | |
| Lyman Beecher - 1828 - 380 páginas
...with fearful punishment ? Shall not the judge of all the earth do right ? Are not all his requisitions according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not ? The commands of God are the measure and the evidence of human ability. He is not an hard master,... | |
| William Jay - 1828 - 408 páginas
...blessing to the lame : and we know who hath said, " Where there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." The third regards Shame. " We are ashamed to begin !" What ! ashamed of your glory ? Ashamed of following... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 632 páginas
...cannot take away your poverty, but I can ease your spirit; and " God accepts us" (saith the Apostle) "according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." Only as our desires are great, and our spirits are willing, so we shall find ways to make supply of... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 560 páginas
...can, and desire more, and pursue more,. it ia accepted as if we had done all : for we are accepted " according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath note." Unless we can neither endeavour, nor desire, c Matt. v. 12. 1 Cor. iii. 8. Matt. xvi. 27. 2... | |
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