 | Isaac Barrow - 1819 - 200 pàgines
...is styled exercise, (agonistic and ascetic exercise ; " Exercise thyself to godliness;" and " Herein I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men ;") wrestling, (" our wrestling is not only against flesh and blood, but against principalities and... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pàgines
...at all seasons ; serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations0. And herein do I exercise myself, to, have always a conscience void of offence toward God', and toward mand. For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle ; because... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1840 - 644 pàgines
...the approbation of God. The apostle when arraigned before the Roman governor, said in his defence, " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man," and he often appealed to God as a witness of his integrity. This feeling is necessary... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pàgines
...not a conscientious respect to it in all things. They do not, with St. Paul, ' exercise themselves, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God and toward men.' Those were his ascetics, (do-Ki5) ; he exhausted himself in striving against what might defile the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pàgines
...who could not be charged by the law, to be convicted by their own conscience; and therefore St. Paul, in his justification before Felix, after he had denied...be lamented, that this legitimate daughter of the Gospel of peace should grow so prodigiously unnatural and impetuous, as to attempt to tear out the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 494 pàgines
...that mirth is heaviness. - - 338 SERMON LXXXIV. On the Conscience void of Offence. ACTS, xxiv. 16. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. 352 SERMON LXXXV. On the Ascension of Christ. [Preached in the Evening after the Celebration of the... | |
 | John Pearson (bp. of Chester.) - 1822 - 576 pàgines
...saith he, " towards God, that there shall he a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience...of offence toward God and toward men," Acts xxiv. 15. This is the proper work of a true belief, and a full persuasion of a resurrection ; and he who... | |
 | Philadelphia Sunday and Adult School Union - 1822 - 156 pàgines
...worship [ the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets : and herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. Q. 76. What is pure religion ? James, i. 27. A. Pure religion, and undefiled before God and the Father,... | |
 | 1822 - 570 pàgines
...opinion it i was somct'tmrs erroneous, jot we doubt not was fonut-d upon this purely Christian model : " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." Having adopted such a standard, so completely at variance with the maxims of the world, it «as not... | |
 | Joshua Dixon (of Leeds.) - 1822 - 250 pàgines
...these important truths. Follow the example of St. Paul, and he ahle to say with him, I (therefore) exercise myself, to have always a conscience void...offence toward God, and toward men. Acts xxiv, 16. As hell is so dreadful a place, seek earnestly to avoid it, and inquire diligently how you may get... | |
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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 
