 | Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 416 pages
...Jehovah and secures the reward. " The widow's farthing" will be cheerfully acknowledged by HIM who judges "according to what a man hath and not according to what he hath not." One talent well improved amounts to more in his estimation than ten or ten thousand slothfully neglected.... | |
 | 1803 - 504 pages
...be humbled before God. When this takes place, we have done all that is required i for God requireth according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. But what fhall be done if our injured brother will not be reconciled to us, even tho* we fulfil to... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - 544 pages
...in outward actions ; for " God accepts the will for the deed : if there be first a willing mind, and it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." 4. Love is the perfection of the law, the sum and substance of every precept. *... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1816 - 588 pages
...advantages. Where it is a duty, it is put into every man's power ; where it is an advice, it is only expected according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : and even here, although the events of prudence are out of our power, yet the endeavours and the observation,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1816 - 526 pages
...poverty, but I can * Triuumnins ease your spirit ; and God accepts us, (saith the Apostle,) acfording to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. Only as our desires are great, and our spirits are willing, so we shall find ways to make supply of... | |
 | 1817 - 680 pages
...so there may 12 be a full performance also out of that which ye have. For if there be first a ready mind, it is accepted according to what [a man] hath, and not according to what he hath not. 1 3 For / mean not that others may be eased, and you burthen14 ed : but that, by an equality, your... | |
 | 1817 - 490 pages
...in the best of causes. " If there be first the willing mind," already alluded to, " it is required according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." This willing mind has very extensively appeared ; and to those of their labouring brethren, who may... | |
 | Fanny Woodbury - 1818 - 338 pages
...spirit, and from a right principle, will be no despicable offering in the sight of him who judgeth according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not ? KUITOH. less by-stander discovers nothing to excite particular observation. In such a world as this,... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1818 - 316 pages
...measure; but this is encouraging to every one, who hath first a willing mind, that the performance is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to wliat he hath not: and therefore it may not be improper, according to this rule, and their own measure,... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 408 pages
...Apostle's assurance, that it is accepted by him (if there is a willing mind in the gift), and that according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not; upon the same principle that the widow's mite was equally received as the more considerable present... | |
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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... 
