| Job Orton - 1805 - 376 páginas
...tram. But I hope all my friends are endeavouring to refemble our common Father and Friend, who accepts according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not ; who confiders our frame, and makes gracious allowances for our infirmities. I am I am forry for the... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 534 páginas
...God, and the hands diligently employed in his work, and if there be a willing mind, it is accepted according to what^ a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. 4. Solomon, with all his wealth and magnificence, never looked so truly great and glorious, as he did... | |
| William Jay - 1805 - 486 páginas
...appear. God indeed " looketh to the heart," and " where there is " firft a willing mind, it is accepted according to what " a man hath, and not according to what he has not." In forming his eftimate of the fervices of his people, he confiders not only what they do,... | |
| Herman Witsius - 1807 - 360 páginas
...accepted. For it is a known rule in the economy of grace, that if there be a willing mind, it is accepted, according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not, 2 Cor. viii. 12. The things which the Apostle counted loss and dung, Phil. iii. 8. were not, the holy... | |
| Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis - 1807 - 664 páginas
...acknowledge the noblest charity in the smallest gift, as wherever there is a willing mind, it is accepted according- to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. (2 Cor. viii. 12.) Let us imitate the candour of our blessed Redeemer, and be 43 ready to be pleased... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 páginas
...memorial of her. Hence the apostle tells us, that where there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hiith not. It is not so much what our works are, as what our heart is ; that God looks at, and will... | |
| 1808 - 168 páginas
...son, Heb. xi. 17, according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12. Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : which is true of this church-duty, as well as of that of alms. It is an usual phrase with, the ancients... | |
| Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 566 páginas
...wanting and unattainable : If there be a willing mind, says the Apostle, 2 Cor. viii. 12. it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. Let none, therefore, conclude ihat they have no grace, because they have many imperfections in their... | |
| Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 548 páginas
...Lord, who accepteth of our sincere endeavours ; " For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not," 2 Cor. viii. 1 2. Your God, who hath given you the life of regeneration, and " hath begun the good... | |
| 1812 - 620 páginas
...-work. Let each one remember, that where much cannot be given a little will be acceptable. The duty is according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. Every real disc/file of the Lord has at least a little faith; and this faith must be brought into exercise,... | |
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