| Baptists - 1826 - 436 pages
...that spirit which we desire ? We read * that a good soldier of Jesus Christ entangleth himself not with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier ; or, as Guyse explains it, ' he must not follow any civil calling, unprofitable reading, or unnecessary... | |
| John William Fletcher - 1826 - 618 pages
...Endure hardness an a good soldier of Jesus Christ, [the same mere man.] No man that warreth, entanglcth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.' See that thou then (he might have added, as indeed is implied)... | |
| John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...thought for your life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 2 TIM. ii. 4 : No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. See on MAT. x. 9, 10. 5 And 'whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off... | |
| William Ford Vance - Christian life - 1827 - 376 pages
...Thou, therefore," says the Apostle to Timothy, " endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Now there are two things which suggest themselves to our minds, as necessarily following from these... | |
| 1827 - 512 pages
...be able to teach others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman... | |
| Clergy - 1827 - 488 pages
...war do not carry unnecessary burdens with them, which may encumber or retard their march, he adds, No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him for a soldier1. Upon this it is that all those canons, which have been made in so many ages of the... | |
| Samuel Warren - Methodism - 1827 - 1048 pages
...wish you to be at the remotest distance from all temptation to a secular or mercenary temper. " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath called him to be a soldier." Independently of the moral and religious considerations which enforce... | |
| Thomas Elrington (bp. of Ferns and Leighlin.) - 1828 - 384 pages
...unimportant, we cannot innocently defer or postpone the performance of them to the claims of social life. " No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." Even the obligations of friendship, the tender ties of kindred, the bonds of parental and filial affection... | |
| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...time to come.— 1 Tim. vi. 6—11. 17—19. Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. — 2 Tim. ii. 3, 4. In the last day, &c. men shall be lovers of their ownselves, &c. lovers of pleasures,... | |
| 1828 - 828 pages
...appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. IS For the which cause I also 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. 6 The husbandman... | |
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