...there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not". As it is written, He that had gathereth much, had nothing over ; and he that had gathered little, had...

...applicable to the whole of our duties, of every description. ' For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The service can plead no merit, and advance no claims; for even the Psalmist said, 64 ' My goodness...

...given, 2 Cor. viii. 12. where the apostle declares, that, " if there be first a willing mind, it " is accepted according to that a man hath, and «« not according to that he hath not." This too is the plain import of the direction in his first epistle to the Corinthians, chap. xvi. 1,...

...given, 2 Cor. viii. 12. where the apostle declares, that, " if there be first a willing mind, it " is accepted according to that a man hath, and " not according to that he hath hot." This too is the plain import of the direction in his first epistle to the Corinthians, chap....

...105 shah find acceptance, with- God. , 2 Cor. viii .12. For if there be first a willing: mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. The publican's prayer had not much rhetoric or eloquence in it, " God be merciful to me a sinner,"...

...soever, it ventures to pay, in sure confidence that they will be grateful to that Being, which accepteth according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not, 2 Cor. viii. 12. Thus does external adoration become a point of natural homage, due to the supreme...

...cast into his treasury, and in whose word it is written, ' If there he first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The work is not done, nor will it soon he finished. It will not he complete even when the hundreds...

...the measure of obligation. The scriptures assure us, that, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. God requires of men that they should knots him ; and he has endowed them with an understanding capable...

...cast into his treasury, and in whose word it is written, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath uot." The work is not done, nor will it soon be finished. It will not be complete even when the hundreds...

...their liberality, builds his reasoning upon this maxim. " If there be a willing mind," says he, " it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." 2 Corinthians viii. 12. There is no man, I believe, who can doubt of the reasonableness of this determination...