| David Abeel - Missions - 1838 - 252 pages
...command. I believe I have acted on the principle of positive duty. The word of God declares that "if any provide not for his own, and specially for those...denied the faith and is worse than an infidel." It is a maxim of wisdom which none will gainsay, that " charity begins at home." God has connected mankind... | |
| Joshua Dixon - Catechisms, English - 1838 - 264 pages
.... This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat 2 Thess. iii. 10. 12. If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith. 1 Tim. v. 8. Should you not also understand this petition in a spiritual seme?... | |
| Stephen Davies - 1838 - 260 pages
...by accession, they are thy charge, I intrust them to thee." Consequent upon which, it is said, " if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." But, can any person, placed in such a situation,... | |
| John Mitchell - Congregational churches - 1838 - 314 pages
...whether through indolence or covetousness. This is a sin against nature, justice, and religion. " If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." 1 Tim. v. 8. 6. Refusing to bear a reasonable... | |
| Catherine Sinclair - England - 1838 - 430 pages
...house and diligently to follow every good work," are injunctions preceded by the important remark, " If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." Though Eli became occupied in the service of... | |
| Charles Augustus Thurlow - Christian women - 1838 - 182 pages
...the Lord for ever." Ps. xxiii, 6. That is an excellent precept which we are taught, 1 TIM. v, 8. "If any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, (or kindred,) he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel." A good father must feel and... | |
| George Mogridge - 1839 - 338 pages
...command, " Provide things honest in the sight of all men," Rom. xii. 17; and by the declaration, " But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel," 1 Tim. v. 8. Old Humphrey, then, helieves that... | |
| Catechisms - 1839 - 118 pages
...cxxii. 7, 8; cxxxviii. 5, 6. 1 John iii. 16. 18. Duties of parents and heads of families. If any man provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house ; he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 1 Tim. v. 8. 'Train •tip fc child in the way... | |
| Thomas Maguire - 1840 - 488 pages
...proves nothing in iiis favour. "And these things give in charge that they may be blameless. But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel. Let not a widow be taken into the number under... | |
| Thomas Chalmers - Bible - 1840 - 488 pages
...our text were criminal, but not the pronoia (the word there too) of the following verse — "But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel."2 We should not have adverted thus minutely to... | |
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