 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1809 - 578 pages
...ebtain the remissionofsins. So, 2 Tim. ii. 25. " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." Tha acknowledging of the truth which there is in believing, is here spoken of as what is attained in... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - Theology, Doctrinal - 1810 - 272 pages
...benevolently towards others who may err : " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth*." Finally : There is an important differense between rasing the foundation, and building upon that foundation... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...affections and lusts. 76. '< 2 Tim. ii. 25. In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. i Zech. xii. 10. And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - Christian life - 1810 - 342 pages
...forgiveness of sins.' So in 2 Tim. ii. 25. ' In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God •peradventure will give them repentance to the -acknowledging of the truth.' It is not in the power of any mortal to repent at his own pleasure.* Some ignorant deluded souls vainly... | |
 | Thomas Wight - Society of Friends - 1811 - 342 pages
...the Lord muft not ftrive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meeknefs inftrufting thofe that oppofe themfelves; if God peradventure...them repentance to the acknowledging of the Truth." And the weapons of the welfare of the primitive Chriftians were not carnal : but the weapons and methods... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...works in the children of disobedience: he holds them in his snare, and leads them at his pleasure. " If God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...considered as the gift of God, by that special grace, which he decreed to confer on his elect people. " If God peradventure will give " them repentance, to the acknowledging of the " truth."1 " Him hath God exalted with his right fc hand, to be a Prince and Saviour, to give repent"... | |
 | Missions - 1811 - 568 pages
...be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.' I CANNOT DIE! ' IN August last, four men named Marshall, Sawer, "W ak«lln, and Atkinson, were executed... | |
 | John Smith - Bible - 1812 - 286 pages
...Christ are to " be gentle unto all men," — " in meekness - instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." But of how small importance are some things, in which some denominations of professing Christians disagree,... | |
 | Missions - 1813 - 500 pages
...cometh by hearing." See likewise 2 Tim. ii. 15. " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them repentance, to the acknowledging of the truth." This may well encourage the hearer of the word, no less than the preacher. There is only a peradventtire,... | |
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But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure... 
