 | Lorenzo Dow - 1804 - 170 pages
...ftripes, and knoweth not his mafter's will, fhall be beaten with few ftripes. Thus you fee it is required according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. As \v£ read every man is to be rewarded according to his works, or the deeds done in the body, Rev.... | |
 | Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - 1805 - 534 pages
...the heart be intent upon serving 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 pages
...to give, benevolence cannot 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,... | |
 | Job Orton - 1805 - 376 pages
...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... | |
 | Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis - 1807 - 664 pages
...power to perform ; since Christ may acknowledge the noblest charity in the smallest gift, as wherever there is a willing mind, it is accepted according-...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... | |
 | Herman Witsius - 1807 - 360 pages
...required, yet much less is 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... | |
 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pages
...done shall be spoken of as a 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... | |
 | Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis - 1907 - 500 pages
...placency, with which where there is a willing mind, the smallest 9 tribute to the treasury of God, is accepted according to -what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. To ani mate us to the most generous efforts of overflowing benevolence, may we ever bear in our mind... | |
 | Philip Doddridge, Andrew Kippis - 1807 - 502 pages
...placency, with which where there is a witling mind, the smallest 9 tribute to the treasury of God, is accepted according' to -what a man hath, and not according to rvhat he hath not. To animate us to the most generous efforts of overflowing benevolence, may we ever... | |
 | Thomas Belsham - 1808 - 656 pages
...so there may be a full performance also out of that 12 which ye have. For if there be first a ready mind, it is accepted according to what [a man] hath, and not ac13 cording to what he hath not. For I mean not that others 14 may be eased, and you burthened : but... | |
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Abraham to sacrifice his 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... 
