| Sarah Grubb - 1794 - 460 pages
...under the care and bleffing of the Shepherd and Bifhop of fouls, after conflicting doubtings refpe&ing it, is fuch a cordial as reanimates the foul to fight...but it is hard to lay down all thefe precious gifts, frill to walk as the Mafter walked, to teftify, by our dedication, that we believe he came to fave... | |
| William Mason - 1803 - 400 pages
...Soldiers of Christ, what is your chief business on earth but to glorify God? What your daily work, but " to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life?" This is our calling; the light of another day is vouchsafed us. But whither can we turn our eyes, but... | |
| William Mason - 1803 - 402 pages
...Soldiers of Christ, what is your chief business on earth but to glorify God ? What your daily work, but " to fight the good fight •of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life?" This is our calling; the light of another day is vouchsafed us. But whither ean We turh our eyes, but... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pages
...believe in Christ, and the same influence must be exerted to enable him afterwards to live by faith, to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on etereternal life. Great is the confidence that can say, " Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1808 - 584 pages
...may not use even lawful things in an inexpedient and injurious manner: and help us, in every respect, to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life. We commend to thy care and blessing, O gracious Lord, all who are dear unto us. Teach us, we beseech... | |
| John Wesley - 1811 - 450 pages
...holiness. It strengthens our hands to go on in the work of faith, and in the labour of love; manfully to " fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life." It is peculiarly designed of God to be a balance both against inward and outward sufferings : to "... | |
| William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...therefore he exhorts Timothy, the next in command, to " endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ; to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life." He forewarns him of perilous times, and erroneous preachers and professors, when men should appear... | |
| Edward Cooper - 1818 - 384 pages
...bless you according to the full meaning of them ! May He inspire you with wisdom, courage, and strength to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life ! .But on the other hand must I not fear that there are others present, to whom these tidings are tidings... | |
| 1840 - 772 pages
...surprise to find the Apostle hid the Bishop of Ephesus, and thence, in a lower sense, all Christians, to fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on the eternal life whereunto they are called ! Let us, then, consider some of the ways in which all Christians... | |
| James Clarke Franks - 1821 - 570 pages
...the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice. WHEN the Apostle Paul exhorted Timothy to " fight the good fight of faith, and to lay hold on eternal life," he gave him charge to keep this commandment " in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before... | |
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