...whom I have known, he was, I am persuaded, authorised to say, both at that period and in later life, " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards man." Having successfully pursued and completed his college studies, with the...

...q Luke i. 75. In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days cf our life. Acts xxiv. 16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of ofience toward God, and toward men . r Rom. x. 5. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of...

...and godly, in this present world." Just so, 8. Did our apostolic missionary live. "Herein," says he, "do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth...

...rectitude. What a fine description have we of this labor, from the conduct and the pen of St. Paul. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience...offence, toward God, and toward men. Acts, xxiv, 16. Happy the man who, by the grace of his God, is thus employed amidst the conflicting scenes of life...

...conscience, which is the point of union between his faith and charity. " Herein," says the Apostle, " do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and men " (Acte xxiv. 16^. HWR THE EMPLOYMENTS OF ANGELS. и. AND, firstly, with respect to those functions...

...examination of our own souls, into our motives, purposes, and ways of life, to see whether or not we "have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men " (Acts xxiv. 1 6). This is the witness of the conscience. When the accusers of the woman taken in adultery heard...

...requires more than this; the grace of God teaches more. Under its constraining power, Paul said, " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence, both towards God and towards men." To Timothy he writes, " Study to shew thyself approved unto God...

...exercise of grace and performance of duty. Were the believer to be as diligent, in " exercising himself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men *," as in trying his evidences ; he would advance more speedily than he does, in the assurance of sense....

...zeal, or to the other by worldly compliance, he steadily persevered in the path of duty, endeavouring to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men. " Secondly. \\ herever he saw a trial awaiting him, in the order of Providence, how terrific an aspect...

...against the laws of the State ; for this is to the very same sense of what he speaks, chap. 24, verse 16. Herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men. Finally, when it was moved to him by the governor, whether he would go...