| Charles Daubeny - 1830 - 1120 pages
...glory of God the end, must take the word of God for the rule, of his actions. We are told, indeed, that " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing;"* and we readily subscribe to the doctrine. We are, moreover, exhorted by the Apostle to " contend earnestly... | |
| William Swan - Missionaries - 1830 - 372 pages
...'injunctions as these : " Let all your things be done with charity : let not your good be evil spoken of : it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing : be careful to maintain good works : be not wise in your own conceits ;" and many more that might... | |
| Edward Fisher - Antinomianism - 1830 - 432 pages
...with the spirit of meekness, 1 Cor. 4: 21. as christians ought to do. I confess with the apostle, " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing," Gal. 4: 18. But yet, as the same apostle said of the Jews, so, I fear, I may say of some christians,... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1830 - 612 pages
...soul, a man is filled with an ardour and warmth of zeal in the cause in which he is engaged. Now, " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing ;" and if our ardour of BOtl! be from the Spirit of God, according to the revealed will of God, and... | |
| Rev. John BARR (of Glasgow.) - Christian life - 1831 - 348 pages
...state. 12. A spurious zeal in the cause of religion, is mistaken by some as an evidence of vital piety That " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing," is the declaration of an apostle.* And that * Gal. iv. 18. it is always a most unpromising and suspicious... | |
| Antimasonic Party (Mass.). State Convention - Freemasonry - 1831 - 88 pages
...disturbance ? Excitement on such a subject as this is good and commendable. An apostle has said, " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." And what better thing can awaken the zeal, and engage the warm efforts of Christians, than the purification... | |
| Griffith Jones - 1832 - 436 pages
...accounted by the world no better than folly and madness, yet we are assured from divine authority, that " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." It is in a good thing only that zeal is good. In an evil thing, it is exceedingly evil ; as on the... | |
| John Locke - Bible - 1832 - 468 pages
...zealously affect you, but not well ; yea, they would exclude- you, that ye might affect them. 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when 1 am present with you. PARAPHRASE. 12 I beseech you, hrethren, let you and I be as... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 684 pages
...of this appeal : much more must you who are engaged in the service of the Lord, be well convinced, that " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good cause." To you therefore we say, as the spies did to the neglectful Danites, " We have seen the land,... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 562 pages
...it is directed. Hence the Apostle limits his commendation of it by this particular consideration ; " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." If exercised in a bad cause, it only precipitates a person to the commission of greater evil : but,... | |
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