 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 sivua
...minister chosen of men only may for a time please men; but, if he is chosen of Christ, he will labour " that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier," 2 Tim. ii. 4. It being known that I was extremely poor, now and then a friend would offer me a shilling... | |
 | James Meikle - 1812 - 384 sivua
...with the affairs of the land, as we belong to thfe sea ; so must the saint not entangle himself in the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a spiritual soldier. 5. We are all maintained by the King ; so are all Christians by the throne of Heaven.... | |
 | Abraham Booth - 1813 - 452 sivua
...seems to have the force of a negative precept, respecting the christian pastor: No man thai warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ;...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. A pastor should be very cautious, not only of entering, unnecessarily, into stated secular employment;... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 sivua
...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himv.-lfwith the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath 0<xa. 13 chosen him to be a soldier. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1814 - 772 sivua
...holds of Satan. You know the service in which " you have enlisted : ' No man that warreth en"* tangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that " he may...please him who hath chosen him to be " a soldier.' Some, who once engaged in the " 1same cause, unfortunately desiring to be rich, " fell into ' temptation... | |
 | 1814 - 570 sivua
...also. 3 Thou, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him, who hath ehosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not erowned exeept... | |
 | Jacob Kerr - 1814 - 424 sivua
...be, that he might be eonsidered a soldier of Jesus Christ, in word and in deed. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath ehosen him to be a soldier.—2 Tim. ii, 4.. But he, unmindful of the foregoing text, strived for the... | |
 | 1815 - 608 sivua
...3. Therefore, endure hardships, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4. No man that warreth entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier. 5. And if a man also strive for victories, yet is he not crowned except... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1817 - 286 sivua
...hath chosen him to be a soldier. He must watch, too, agaipst a dozing away of time; the clock -weight goes down slowly, yet it draws all the works with...considered how much a minister's personal religion is expose^ to danger, from the very circumstance of religion being his profession and employment. He mustgo... | |
 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - 1817 - 306 sivua
...stand." If he would war with sucsess in the spiritual warfare, he must be watchful that he entangle not himself " with the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." After my admission at College, I was much agitated with anxiety about the consequences of changing... | |
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No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 
