 | Missions - 1804 - 664 pages
...and lively faith." *Nor had St. Paul any doubt on the score of his election, for he snys, ver. 1C), " I therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so fight I, not as one that beatcth the air." But did this certainty, as to the issue of the combat, render the vigorous exertions... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 310 pages
...indolence should frustrate his aim of obtaining the prize, which had always been an object of his hope; / therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means when I have preached to others,... | |
 | 1815 - 436 pages
...of us, in order to this end, under Divine grace, adopt the resolution and practice of St. Paul : " I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but 1 keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...and not the latter, he tells the Corinthians. " I therefore so run," says he, " not at uncertainty ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...is temperate in all things : now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection : lest that by any means, when I have preached to others,... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...temperate in all things. Now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : .27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1805 - 380 pages
...from sensible to spiritual pleasures, and says, he hath also an area, a race, a crown, a triumph. / therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so .fight I, not as one that beatfth the air. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means tv/ien... | |
 | William Law - 1807 - 424 pages
...the eyes of men, but such as inwardly hurt the humility and charity of his mind. St. Paul saith, / therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth , ^ • the air. But I keep under m;/ body, and bring it i/lto subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...temperate in a!l things. Now they do ii to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 1 ilerefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that bcateth the air : but 1 keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 pages
...service : it is a hard saying, and they cannot bear it. What saith the Apostle, 1 Cor. 9, 26, 21 ? So fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I beat down my body, for so the word signifies, and bring it into subjection. But is there any such hardship... | |
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I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air ; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away. 
