 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1825 - 572 pages
...Tim. vi. 1. Rom. ii. 44. ' TH.ii.3 — 5. ' 1 Pet. ii. 15. against you as evil doers, they may by your works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation *." And it was the aggravation of the heretics' sin, that " many shall follow their pernicious ways,... | |
 | John Mason Duncan - Creeds - 1826 - 154 pages
...may see their good works, and glorify their Father which is in heaven: or as Peter expresses it, — "Having your conversation honest among the gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 610 pages
...the Primitive Christians suffered much reproach on this account. St. Pete)' exhorts them thus: ' Have your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil. doers, they may glorify God by your good works, which they shall behold ; for it is his will,... | |
 | John Owen - Puritans - 1826 - 578 pages
...in your abominations; Matt. xxv. 42, 43. [2.] The conversion of others. 1 Pet. ii. 12. ' Havingyour conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.'... | |
 | 1826 - 442 pages
...silence the ignorance of foolish men ; and that they who speak against them as evil-doers, may by their good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of his visitation. APPENDIX. The following List, to the year 1731, is taken chiefly from a work intituled... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...HEB. xii. 3 : Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself. 1 PET. ii. 12: Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation, do. iv. 14 : If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye ; for the spirit of glory and... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul ; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for (he Lord's sake ; whether it be to the king, as supreme... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1827 - 638 pages
...as much in another exhortation. " Having your conversation honest, [or good, fair, and unspotted,] among the gentiles ; that whereas they speak against...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation," 1 Pet. ii. 12. This particular may in some measure coincide with the preceding. Such things as are... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them. с 1 Peter ii. 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles...speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good v;orks which the)' shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. IK!- d Mai. ii. 2. If ye will... | |
 | Egor Fedorovich Timkovskiĭ - China - 1827 - 492 pages
...honest amongst the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you * Hebrews, chap. xr 36. as evil doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." * " At a future time, if God permits, we shall have an opportunity of meeting and opening our hearts... | |
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Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul ; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles : that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which... 
