| Sarah Mary Campbell (countess of Cawdor) - 1878 - 550 pages
...an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, iu spirit, in faith, in purity. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine....Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them : that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine ; continue in... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth - Church and state - 1879 - 510 pages
...His blood for it. St. Paul said to Timothy, whom he left at Ephesus, when ho went into Macedonia, " Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine...meditate upon these things, give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear unto all." ' " I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who... | |
| Henry Burgess - Preaching - 1881 - 432 pages
...of the fulness of Holy Scripture and its application to all great moral questions : " Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine....Meditate upon these things, give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to CONNECTION BETWEEN PIETY AND SUCCESS. 63 all. Take heed unto thyself... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln.) - 1882 - 204 pages
...(2 Tim. ii. 23 ; I Tim. i. 4). But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine (Titus ii. 1). Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine....Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them (1 Tim. iv. 13, 15); in all things showing thyself a pattern of good works (Titus ii. 7), and being... | |
| Henry Varley - Christian life - 1884 - 228 pages
...mere apprentice boy. Mark the counsel given to Timothy, in order to success as a minister of Christ: " Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine....Meditate upon these things, give 'thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all" (in all things—margin). Modern Religiousness.—The tendency... | |
| 1886 - 808 pages
...unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. " "Till I come give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine....Meditate upon these things ; give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all." In this age of thought and culture and abundant literature,... | |
| Presbyterian Church in Ireland. General Assembly - 1887 - 240 pages
...searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so. 1 Tim. iv. 13, 15, 16 — Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine...Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine ; continue in... | |
| John Knox Shaw - 1887 - 422 pages
...the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate upon these things, give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all.' . . . Thus lived one of the most devoted and useful of Methodist... | |
| 1890 - 1024 pages
...should be its chief burden better than those of St. Paul to his beloved son Timothy — "Till I come give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine....Meditate upon these things, give thyself wholly to them, that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyself and unto the doctrine; continue in them:... | |
| William Smith, Samuel Cheetham - Christian antiquities - 1893 - 928 pages
...unbelievers; resting his argument on the exhortation of St. Paul to Timothy (1 Tim. iv. 13)— ••Olive attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine:...meditate upon these things : give thyself wholly to them ; that thy profiting may appear to all men." Exhortations to the like efl'ect occur also in the writings... | |
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