| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...in general. St. Paul, speaking more especially of those who are in the ministerial office, says : " And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth," 2 Tim. ii. 24, 25.... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1815 - 702 pages
...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting in judgement on faithful and laborious preachers... | |
| 1815 - 670 pages
...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting in judgement on faithful and laborious preachers... | |
| 1815 - 512 pages
...truth. These things are not easily borne with a becoming temper: but remember it is written, " The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men; apt to teach, patient; in meekness inDirecting those that oppose themselves ;" — 2 Tim. ii. 34 — 26. Keep the lovely example of Jesus... | |
| Bible - 1815 - 294 pages
...questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; hut be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they, may... | |
| Congregational churches - 1816 - 600 pages
...needs to have bound upon his hand, and stamped on his bean, those weighty admonitions of the Apostle. "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God pcradventurc wjll give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And that they may... | |
| Charles Richard Cameron - 1816 - 184 pages
...wise, prudish, and squeamish, and what not. But I made no answer, remembering that it is said, " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle...meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." ~2 Tim. ii. 24, 25. While she continued to laugh at me, two young men belonging to the town, came running... | |
| William Russel - Bible - 1816 - 122 pages
...carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds ;" nay, he will find, that " the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in ineekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 602 pages
...precept and .example of his Master. He continued to bless Ihcm that persecuted him; knowing that the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. To the last day he spent among them, he went straight forward, in meekness instructing those that opposed,... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - Trinity - 1816 - 510 pages
...should feel myself exposed to the frown of an offended Master. I know it is his command, that " the servant of the Lord must " not strive, but be gentle unto all men — patient, in meekness " instructing those that oppose themselves." To this command — (a command... | |
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