| Mrs. Hughs (Mary) - 1828 - 242 pages
...God; in due time, will make his enemies be at peace with him.' "If you thus behave yourselves, and so become 'a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well,' God, my God, will be with you in wisdom and a sound mind, and make you blessed instruments in his hand... | |
| Lyman Beecher - Sermons, American - 1828 - 380 pages
...but the character of rulers, God has himself prescribed. They must be just men. Such as fear God — a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. Do duellists answer to this description ? Are they just men ? Do they fear God ? Look at their law... | |
| Religion - 1828 - 580 pages
...that wise, and just, and scriptural application of the power of the magistrate, by which he is made " a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well ;" and in our judgment, the very worst kind of " evil doers" are those who teach that part of society... | |
| Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...talents ? Are you magistrates ? — Administer justice equally' — oppress not the poor man — be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well ; remembering that you hold the sword of the righteous Judge, of the Prince of peace. What are you... | |
| Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 616 pages
...Satan should hinder them, and save their labour). Faithful magistrates also watch continually, to be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well, as the ministers of God for our good. And can a short and idle kind of labour then excuse us ? Christ... | |
| Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 618 pages
...Satan should hinder them, and save their labour). Faithful magistrates also watch continually, to be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well, as the ministers of God for our good. And can a short and idle kind of labour then excuse us '! Christ... | |
| George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 472 pages
...or any man's person, (for we said, we honoured all men in the Lord, and owned authority, which was a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well ; and our souls were subject to the higher powers for conscience sake,) as thou causedst them to be... | |
| Charles Samuel Stewart - Islands of the Pacific - 1831 - 390 pages
...protection and aid to every lawful and laudable pursuit, and of becoming in fact what rulers ought to be, " a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do -well." If, then, the rulers of the people follow (as we hope they will) the important suggestions from the... | |
| John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...Indeed when JUSTICE is perverted, society sustains an irreparable injury. When magistrates cease to be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well, they become, instead of a blessing, a curse to the community. Of these abuses, THOMSON indignantly... | |
| Home missions - 1832 - 902 pages
...people. Here you ire a nursing father, and Hautia Vahiné a nursing mother to the church. Here you are a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. In no other pl«ce could you do so much good, by authority, by precept, by persuasion, and byeïample,asyou... | |
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