 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 620 pages
...your desires are good, all is well.' Direct. XLVI. But all that fight do not overcome : " If a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully™." " Many will seek to enter and shall not be able "." Tempt. XLVH. ' He followeth the sinner with frequency... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses ; " b and, " If a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully," c and in another noble passage, " this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 pages
...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that wan-eth entangh'th himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him...crowned, except he strive lawfully. 6 The husbandman that labonreth must be first partaker of the fruits. 7 Consider what I say ; and the Lord give thee understanding... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1832 - 330 pages
...viii. 8. 1. 8. 7. 13. * Gal. v. 17. 24. s Col. iii. 5. 1 Cor. ix. 27. 2 Cor. x. 3, 4, 5. 6 Rom. xii. 2. the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 1 God forbid that I should glory,... | |
 | Richard Watson - 1832 - 1094 pages
...disregarded the established rules, could hope to receive from the hands of his judge the promised reward. " And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully," 2 Tim. ii. 5, or according to the ettablishcd laws of the games. Like the Grecian «>abatants, the... | |
 | 1833 - 104 pages
...us, having loved this present world." (2 Tim. iv. 10.) " 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." (2 Tim. ii. 4.) When we consider that neither Jesus, Paul, nor Timothy, nor the disciples, were engaged... | |
 | John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - 328 pages
...wicked world.—So again, (2nd Epis. chap. ii. ver. 4.) " 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." This, after all, is the reason why, with so many disciples, so little is done in religion. They have... | |
 | Samuel Longhurst - 1833 - 228 pages
...part of himself, (arma membra milites ducebant.") — See Home's Introduction, vol. iii. page 212. II. 6. "The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits." Here seems to be a transposition ; it should be the husbandman must first labour, and lien, 8$c. —... | |
 | Free Will Baptists (1780?-1911). General Conference (1832) - 1834 - 204 pages
...to teach others also. Acts 6:3, 6. (»/) 2 Tim. 2:4. 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. 1 Tim. 4:15. Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pages
...man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who liath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries,y^ is he not crowned, except he strive lawfally. (i The husbandman that la-' 19 Nevertheless... | |
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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. 
