| James Foster - 1745 - 440 pages
...but little follicitous about fpeculative opinions, and matters of doubtful disputation. Follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another ; Rom. XivFor then only will you have ftudied the fcriptures to a right purpofe, when ye have purified... | |
| Matthew Henry - Devotional literature - 1805 - 192 pages
...one rcind and one mouth glorify God,7j and promote the common salvation. o Give us to follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another,/z that living in love and peace, the God of love and peace may be with. us.? Let nothing be... | |
| Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 342 pages
...disappointed of their prey. The apostle presses the same duty upon the Romans. ' Let us follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.' Ah! youfroward, ill tempered Christians, can you look upon these commands of God without tears and... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 468 pages
...essentials and only differ in opinions, or in the circumstantials of Religion. Who " follows after only the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another ?" O God ! How long ? Shall thy promise fail ? Fear it not, ye little flock. Against hope, believe... | |
| Andrew Fuller - Sandemanianism - 1812 - 226 pages
...Let all things be done to edifying.—Let all things be done decently, and in order.—Follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another.'' Whatever measures had a tendency to build up the church of God and individuals in their most holy faith,... | |
| Missions - 1813 - 500 pages
...intimates that the cultivation of peace tends to the edification of Christians. " Let us follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." Peace is necessary to the edification of any church, which cannot be promoted without it. If Christians... | |
| Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...things serveth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of [wise] men. Let us therefore follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." A preacher may in his discourses propose to the people his own sensos and interpretations of scripture,... | |
| 1820 - 590 pages
...be enjoyed in the present state ; then in addition to our other innumerable blessings, "Let us seek the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." Believing as we are taught, that he who is not against Christ, is on his part, let us aspire to an... | |
| Charles Jerram - Infant baptism - 1820 - 226 pages
...thing* be done decently and in order" — " Let all things be done to edification" — "Follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." — " Doth not even nature itself teach, you ?" — " If any man seem to be contentions, we have no... | |
| William Bengo' Collyer - 1820 - 514 pages
...Virginia, who opened their sittings with a sermon, from Romans, xiv. 19. " Let us, therefore, follow after the things that make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." From the first part of this excellent discourse, distinguished throughout by the Christian, and catholic,... | |
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