 | Thomas Wight - 1811 - 342 pages
...be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meeknefs inftrufting thofe that oppofe themfelves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth." And the weapons of the welfare of the primitive Chriftians were not carnal : but the weapons and methods... | |
 | 1811 - 868 pages
...exert their powers to defend their errors and oppose the truth, and usually hinders their instruction ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men. Therefore I am most for a learning or teaching way of converse. In all companies 1 shall... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 pages
...considered as the gift of God, by that special grace, which he decreed to confer on his elect people. " If God peradventure will give " them repentance, to the acknowledging of the " truth."1 " Him hath God exalted with his right fc hand, to be a Prince and Saviour, to give repent"... | |
 | 1811 - 568 pages
...polemical writers are so deeply tinctured : 'for the wrath of mail worketh not the righteousness of God; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but....them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.' I CANNOT DIE! ' IN August last, four men named Marshall, Sawer, "W ak«lln, and Atkinson, were executed... | |
 | John Smith - 1812 - 286 pages
...meekness. In the language of Paul, the ministers of Christ are to " be gentle unto all men," — " in meekness - instructing those that oppose themselves...them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." But of how small importance are some things, in which some denominations of professing Christians disagree,... | |
 | 1812 - 582 pages
...exert their powers to defend their errors and oppose the truth, and usually hinders their instruction; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men. Therefore I am most for a learning or teaching way of converse. In all companies I shall... | |
 | 1812 - 620 pages
...exert their powers to defend their errors and oppose the truth, and usually hinders their instruction; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men. Therefore I am most for a learning or teaching way of converse. In all companies I shall... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pages
...another.. (y) Foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servants of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men. (:s) Strive not with a man without cause ; if he have clone thea no hnrm. • • (f) l Cor. i. 10... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pages
...Jesus Christ." His feelings and his religious habits are in agreement with his instructions to Timothy. "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." Upon the whole, my brethren, we have an admirable assemblage of evangelic virtues in the missionary... | |
 | 1849 - 748 pages
...were apostolic principles and maxims which Mr. H. studied to imbibe and conscientiously to copy: "The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." He conquered combatants by calmness and kindness: "In all things showing himself a pattern of good... | |
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In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth... 
