 | Protestant association - 1857 - 1224 pages
...enabled withal to give this direction to all that shall succeed him in a controversial career — " The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves." Brethren, bear this in... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1840 - 268 pages
...noble admonition, relating to the meekness of the clergy towards those that divide from them: " The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves, if peradventure God will... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...they would be of no utility ? In regard to gainsayers and adversaries, we are taught, that as " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient," so he is in particular to " instruct in meekness those that oppose themselves,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Families - 1843 - 438 pages
...perfect work, that we may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Give us grace to remember that the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, patient, and in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, showing all meekness to all men. Give us... | |
 | Criticism - 1848 - 628 pages
...he has made it still plainer in his word. He tells us, by his Apostle, 2 Tim. 2 : 24—26, that "The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men ; apt to teach ; patient ; in meekness instructing them that oppose themselves, if God will peradventure... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1843 - 758 pages
...and yet he is to contend earnestly, and his life must be one of conflicts. We do not forget that the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men ; and yet, if he strive not for masteries, and that lawfully, he will never be crowned. We will not... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1844 - 566 pages
...apostolic character of a bishop ! "A bishop," sailh St. Paul, " should be blameless, of good behaviour, no brawler, nor striker, nor greedy of filthy lucre....different was this bishop from himself before he put on lawn-sleeves ! For in his book entitled " The Harbour for Faithful Subjects," published soon after... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1845 - 452 pages
...cry, he will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax ;" and he will feel that " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men," and "speak evil of no man." Then, too, he who learns of Christ, will never put off " the ornament of... | |
 | Theology - 1845 - 460 pages
...cry, he will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax ; " and he will feel that " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men," and "speak evil of no man." Then, loo, he who learns of Christ, will never put off" the ornament of... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1846 - 588 pages
...oracles of God." Feed them with tenderness. "The servant of the Lord must not only be apt to teach, but be gentle to all men: patient in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves." Rule them not "with force and cruelty;" (Ezek. xxxiv. 4.) but let the law of love be the rule oyour... | |
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And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle to all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves... 
