 | Isaac Barrow - Economics - 1819 - 200 pages
...is styled exercise, (agonistic and ascetic exercise ; " Exercise thyself to godliness;" and " Herein I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men ;") wrestling, (" our wrestling is not only against flesh and blood, but against principalities and... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1840 - 644 pages
...the approbation of God. The apostle when arraigned before the Roman governor, said in his defence, " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man," and he often appealed to God as a witness of his integrity. This feeling is necessary... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...all seasons ; serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears and temptations0. And herein do I exercise myself, to, have always a conscience void of offence toward God', and toward mand. For I am the least of the Apostles, that am not meet to be called an Apostle ; because... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pages
...not a conscientious respect to it in all things. They do not, with St. Paul, ' exercise themselves, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God and toward men.' Those were his ascetics, (do-Ki5) ; he exhausted himself in striving against what might defile the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...denied all that the Jews had charged him with, and affirmed that he had broken no law, added, "And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience...offence toward God and toward men," (Acts xxiv. 16.) his behaviour was so exact, that he did not only abstain from doing any man wrong, but from giving... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 494 pages
...that mirth is heaviness. - - 338 SERMON LXXXIV. On the Conscience void of Offence. ACTS, xxiv. 16. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. 352 SERMON LXXXV. On the Ascension of Christ. [Preached in the Evening after the Celebration of the... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...denied all that the Jews had charged him with, and affirmed that he had broken no law, added, " And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience...offence toward God and toward men," (Acts xxiv. 16.) his behaviour -was so exact, that he did not only abstain from doing any man wrong, but from giving... | |
 | John Pearson (bp. of Chester.) - 1822 - 576 pages
...he, " towards God, that there shall he a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience...of offence toward God and toward men," Acts xxiv. 15. This is the proper work of a true belief, and a full persuasion of a resurrection ; and he who... | |
 | Hugh Blair, James Finlayson - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 516 pages
...of that mirth is heaviness. - 338 SERMON LXXXIV. On the Conscience void of Offence. icrs, xxiv. 1 6. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a Conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. 352 SERMON LXXXV. On the Ascension of Christ. [Preached in the Evening after the Celebration of the... | |
 | Joshua Dixon (of Leeds.) - 1822 - 250 pages
...these important truths. Follow the example of St. Paul, and he ahle to say with him, I (therefore) exercise myself, to have always a conscience void...offence toward God, and toward men. Acts xxiv, 16. As hell is so dreadful a place, seek earnestly to avoid it, and inquire diligently how you may get... | |
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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 
