 | James Meikle - Meditations - 1812 - 384 pages
...noble things in view, life and liberty to defend, and enemies to subdue; so, " no man that wareth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." We are never out of danger, while at sea ; for, though it be... | |
 | Abraham Booth - Theology - 1813 - 452 pages
...passage seems to have the force of a negative precept, respecting the christian pastor: No man thai warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. A pastor should be very cautious, not only of entering, unnecessarily,... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...same idea to Timothy. "Thou therefore endure hirdness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ No man Uiat warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." A minister has no right to make the least reservation of his... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...able to teaeh others also. 3 Thou, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him, who hath ehosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not erowned... | |
 | Jacob Kerr - Trials - 1814 - 424 pages
...least appeared so to be, that he might be eonsidered a soldier of Jesus Christ, in word and in deed. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath ehosen him to be a soldier.—2 Tim. ii, 4.. But he, unmindful of the foregoing text, strived... | |
 | Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain) - Missions - 1814 - 772 pages
...holds of Satan. You know the service in which " you have enlisted : ' No man that warreth en"* tangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that " he may please him who hath chosen him to be " a soldier.' Some, who once engaged in the " 1same cause, unfortunately... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pages
...3. Therefore, endure hardships, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4. No man that warreth entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who chose him to be a soldier. 5. And if a man also strive for victories, yet is he not crowned except... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 664 pages
...house!" In order to redeem time, he must refuse to engage in secular affairs : No man, that tvarreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. He must watch, too, against a dozing away of time: the clock-weight... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1817 - 680 pages
...be able to teach others also. Wherefore suffer thou hardships, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be 5 a soldier. And if a man contend also in the games, he is not 6 crowned... | |
 | Richard Cecil - 1817 - 276 pages
..."This is not the house!" In order to redeem time, he must refuse to engage in secular affairs: JVo man, that warreth, entangleth. himself with the affairs of this life, that he may filease Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. He must watch, too, against a dozing away of time:... | |
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No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 
