| Joshua Marsden - Bermuda Islands - 1816 - 324 pages
...formi-^ dable kind ; he must virtually *" bid farewell to "friends, pleasures, and comforts, and stand in readiness to endure the greatest sufferings in...a civilized "country, legal protection, affluence, splendour, or "even a competency; the slight and hatred of men, "false friends, gloomy prisons, and... | |
| Presbyterians - 1830 - 448 pages
...virtually bids farewell to friends, pleasures, and comforts, and stands in readiness to endure thegreatest sufferings in the work of his Lord 'and Master. It is inconsistent in Ministers to please themselves with-the thoughts of a numerous auditory, cordial friends, a civilized... | |
| William Ellis - Gift books - 1837 - 284 pages
...endure, what he sees fit to command, or call him to, in the exercise of his function. He virtually hids farewell to friends, pleasures, and comforts, and...the work of his Lord and Master. It is inconsistent for ministers to please themselves with thoughts of a numerous auditory, cordial friends, a civilized... | |
| 1840 - 728 pages
...engages to go where God pleases, and to do or enduie what he free« fit to command or call him to, in the exercise of his function. He virtually bids...sufferings in the work of his Lord and Master. It i« inconsistent for ministers to please themselves with the thoughts of a numerous auditory, cordial... | |
| Robert Sears - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1844 - 514 pages
...engages to go where God pleases, and to do, or endure, what he sees fit to command, or call him to, in the exercise of his function. He virtually bids...the work of his Lord and master. It is inconsistent for ministers to please themselves with thoughts of a numerous auditory, cordial friends, a civilized... | |
| George Smith - Missionaries - 1885 - 508 pages
...He engages to go where God pleases, and to do or endure what he sees fit to command, or call him to, in the exercise of his function. He virtually bids...the work of his Lord, and Master. It is inconsistent for ministers to please themselves with thoughts of a numerous auditory, cordial friends, a civilised... | |
| George Smith - Baptists - 1885 - 508 pages
...He engages to go where God pleases, and to do or endure what he sees fit to command, or call him to, in the exercise of his function. He virtually bids...the work of his Lord, and Master. It is inconsistent for ministers to please themselves with thoughts of a numerous auditory, cordial friends, a civilised... | |
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