 | 1873 - 984 pages
...Paul would have come home with peculiar power to him, " 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." Many fields of missionary labour might have presented themselves to him, in which he would have been,... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...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 chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strivv, lawfully. , 6 The... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...all hardness, for his Name's sake. II. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs cf this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. It is not, therefore, for thee,, to be taken up with other cares and employments : no man, that gives... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 460 pages
...earthly thing that appeared the least entangling; saying, " 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," 2 Tim. ii. 4. To be short, all that he said had a particular weight with me; attracted my affections... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...clay? This servant or soldier is chosen by his Lord, and to please his Lord should be his chief aim. " That he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier," says Paul; he is to receive all his orders from the Captain of his salvation, do all in his name, depend... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 448 pages
...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 - Meditations - 1812 - 384 pages
...entangle ourselves with the affairs of the land, as we belong to the 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.... | |
 | James Meikle - Meditations - 1812 - 400 pages
...entangle ourselves with the affairs of the land, as we belong to the 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 - Theology - 1813 - 452 pages
...of a negative precept, respecting the Christian pastor: No man thai warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he 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 - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man fcatwarreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to he a soldier." A minister has no right to make the least reservation of his time, of his talents, of... | |
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entangleth himself in the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier;" the Church in her ordination service enjoins them "to forsake and set 
