 | John Anderson - Faith - 1806 - 340 pages
...scripture in which we are enjoined to confess Christ before men ; to hold fast the form of tound words ; to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints ; to strive together ivith one mind for the faith of the gospel. It is, indeed necessary to contend for... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...is high time for us all, ministers and ' people, to awake out of sleep, to contend ear' nestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, ' to hold fast the form of sound words in a spirit ' of gospel meekness and love, to become valiant ' for the truth, and to direct our constant,... | |
 | Unitarian Universalist churches - 1815 - 882 pages
...truth in love, — to obey the truth, to walk, in the truth, — to do nothing against the truth, — to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, — to shine. as a light in the world, holding forth the ward of life? These Christian fruits are certainly... | |
 | Samuel Worcester - Congregational churches - 1815 - 172 pages
...truth in love,— to obey the truth, to walk In the truth, — to do nothing against the truth, — to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, — to shine as a light in the world, halding forth the word of life? These christianfndts are certainly wanting... | |
 | Peter Smith - Sermons - 1818 - 510 pages
...writings. Thus, we are required " to have faith in God ; to build up ourselves in our most holy faith ; to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints ; to examine ourselves whether we be in the faith ; to abound in the faith, and to hold fast the profession... | |
 | 1822 - 396 pages
...then- proper stations. What, then, is the duty of the friends of truth till this happy season arrives ? To "contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints" — to rally round the fortress — to be bold and undismayed amidst the discouragements they may have to... | |
 | Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 554 pages
...and to use even.' proper means to have such error removed, must he always the duty of God's people. To contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, to be feelingly alive to every thing that involves the welfare of God's church, to be ready for every... | |
 | John Brown - Great Britain - 1823 - 560 pages
...Prov. xx. 25. Deut. xxix. 1 — 25 and xxxi. 2O. Jer 1. 5 — 9. As they consider themselves bound to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints ; to keep the word of Christ's patience, and be established in the present truth, Jude 3. Rev. iii. 10.... | |
 | Richard Lloyd - 1825 - 392 pages
...of our guilt and misery, without remedy or even alleviation. This awful consideration should lead us to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, — to exalt our Lord and Saviour hi our ministry, — by holding him forth to our hearers in the glorious... | |
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...5Уyouthful Christians by counsels of aged believers in the church militant, by which they are excited to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints, to endure hardness, and war a good warfare as fellow-soldiers of Christ. Le Fevre was one of the most... | |
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First, the writer exhorts his readers "to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints," "to remember the words of Christ's apostles," " to keep themselves in the love of God, looking for eternal life. 
