 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1823 - 494 pages
...their breast an infallible witness that they were the subjects of saving grace. They say in the text, " Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...of God, we have had our conversation in the world." Their conscience testified, that they had acted, not from fleshly wisdom or worldly motives, but had... | |
 | 1823 - 542 pages
...first, Christian simplicity was to be looked for. The greatest missionary the world ever saw had said, " Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...of God, we have had our conversation in the world." Next, we do not want men who expect to rise in the world by becoming missionaries, but rather such... | |
 | Richard Steele - Business ethics - 1823 - 334 pages
...found of thee ; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee oil" for ever, 1 Chronicles xxviii. 9. " Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...of God, we have had our conversation in the world, 2 Cor. i. 2. " Flee also youthful lusts ; but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...and thou shall live. • - - 323 VI THE JOY OF A CLEAR CONSCIENCE. 2 Corinthians i. 12. — For c.ir rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...of God, we have had our conversation in the world. ... 345; SERMON XXII. THE FAITH OF MIRACLES. Matthew xxi. 22. — And all thing? whatsoever ye shall... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 476 pages
...given by many on our behalf. 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that iu simplicity, and godly sincerity, not with fleshly...conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. PARAPHRASE. patient enduring those sufferings, whereof you see an example in. me. And again, when I... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1823 - 586 pages
...under the various calumnies and suspicions to which he was subjected. " Our rejoicing," says he, " is this, the testimony of our conscience, that " in...fleshly " wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have our " conversation in the world."* This " godly sin" eerity" as much differs from worldly sincerity,... | |
 | Bible - 1824 - 462 pages
...the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf. 12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our...conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 13 For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge ; and I trust ye shall... | |
 | John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 514 pages
...gift bestowed upon us, by the means of many persons, thanks may be given by many on our behalf. J2 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-wards. PARAPHRASE. hopes, as concerning you ; being assured, that as you have had your share of... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1824 - 542 pages
...measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft, 2 Cor. xi. 23. And yet he triumphs in 2 Cor. i. 12. Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-wards. Strong Paul rejoiced in his sufferings for Christ, and therefore often sings out, / Paul... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1828 - 594 pages
...is, so to obey its dictates, that it would not condemn him. He says for himself and other Christians, "Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience,...of God, we have had our conversation in the world." Though conscience may be circumscribed in its operations, by ignorance and the blindness and obstinacy... | |
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For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. 
