 | William Carpenter - Bible - 1825 - 698 pages
...unto them, and said, * It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tablet. • 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, 2 Tim. ii. 4. VER. 3. vfJt-súv ¿wapTupou/xÉtayf Етгтя... | |
 | Baptists - 1825 - 806 pages
...apostles, let us give ourselves to prayer, and, as far as practicable, to the ministry of the word. " 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." The minis- ; try of reconciliation which God has j committed... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1825 - 488 pages
...not the house !" In order to redeem time, he must refuse to engage in secular affairs: 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. He must watch, too, against a dozing away of time : the clock-weight... | |
 | William Haslett - Books - 1825 - 224 pages
...strongly characterize the followers of the Lord Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, saith the apostle, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soHier: — arid the christian must beware how he permits his affections... | |
 | John Holmes - 1825 - 450 pages
...extract from one of his letters : " I have endeavoured to conform to what the Apostle Paul says ; ' No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life-' My resolution is now taken, to renounce all worldly honors, ease and protection ; and devote myself,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1825 - 596 pages
...between two brethren, said, " Who made me a judge or a divider?" fit. Paul, speaking of churchmen, says, "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ;" which was understood by St. Cyprian, as a perpetual rule against the secular employments of the... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 618 pages
...Endure hardness an a good soldier of Jesus Christ, [the same mere man.] No man that warreth, entanglcth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.' See that thou then (he might have added, as indeed is implied) make it thy care to please the mere... | |
 | Bernard Barton - 1826 - 280 pages
...name, If, when he from earth shall sever, These he would ascribe for ever ? A CHRISTIAN'S DEVOTEDNESS. "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." —2 Timothy, ii. 4. HE who would win a warrior's fame, Must... | |
 | 1858 - 726 pages
...not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables ;" the second was 3 Tim. ii. 4, " 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." These passages, produced considerable hesitation and much perplexity.... | |
 | Richard Cecil - Theology - 1826 - 308 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 please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. He must watch, too, against a dozing away of time : the clock-weight... | |
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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. 
