| Thomas Elrington (bp. of Ferns and Leighlin.) - 1828 - 384 páginas
...unimportant, we cannot innocently defer or postpone the performance of them to the claims of social life. " No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." Even the obligations of friendship, the tender ties of kindred,... | |
| Harvey Marriott - 1828 - 180 páginas
...Redeemer. In the management of your life and conduct, as regards your own interest in Christ, remember, " no man that warreth, " entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, " that he may please him who hath called him to «* be a soldier" (2 Tim. ii. 4) ; and in anxious Christian love towards all... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 552 páginas
...ever serve a prince. And now we are easily driven into an understanding of that saying of St. Paul, " No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ''." For although this be spoken of all Christian people, and concerns the laity in " In 1 Cor. vi.... | |
| John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 páginas
...therefore, (says he) endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entarigleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.' Not ' to follow' where the ' Lamb' leads, is, in effect, to doubt... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 páginas
...1 Tim. vi. 12. 2 Tim. iv. 7, 8. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ : no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, &c. — 2 Tim. ii. 3, 4. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the... | |
| John Howie - 1828 - 650 páginas
...ministry with great diligence, so that his profiting did quickly appear to all ; but, considering that no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, he obtained leave to return to his own country, tu settle his worldly affairs ; yet while here ho was... | |
| James Nourse - 1829 - 292 páginas
...therefore endure 3 hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth en- 4 tangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for 5 masteries, yet is he not crowned,... | |
| John Acaster - 1830 - 170 páginas
...and how they •were to acquit themselves, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ ; immediately adds, — " No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." On the authority of this and other passages of the word of God,... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 510 páginas
...cares and business? Are you not charged, " Meditate on these things : give thyself wholly to them m." " No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier n" . • 1 Tim. iv. 15. ....'" 2 Tim. ii. 4. Is not this plain?... | |
| 1832 - 448 páginas
...You must not secularize yourself. Both your time and talents are to be employed in nobler purposes. "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." Calculate on meeting many discouragements. Much of •your good... | |
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