 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 554 pages
...Meditate on these things : give thyself wholly to them m." " No man that warreth, entangleth Jiimself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier n." m 1 Tim. iv. 15. • " 2 Tim. ii. 4. Is not this plain? Soldiers use not to look to farms and servants.... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1832 - 448 pages
...You must not secularize yourself. Both your time and talents are to be employed in nobler purposes. "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." Calculate on meeting many discouragements. Much of •your good... | |
 | John Acaster - Benefices, Ecclesiastical - 1830 - 170 pages
...and how they •were to acquit themselves, as good soldiers of Jesus Christ ; immediately adds, — " 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." On the authority of this and other passages of the word of God,... | |
 | Slavery - 1830 - 210 pages
...We wish you to be at the remotest distance from all temptations to a secular or mercenary temper. ' No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath called him to be a soldier.' Independently of the moral and religious considerations which... | |
 | Alexander Viets Griswold - Sermons, American - 1830 - 492 pages
...very severe discipline ; and are ever on the alert, that they may not be surprised. " No man (of them) that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him, who hath chosen him to be a soldier." Promotion and glory being 359 his objects, he devotes his time... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 620 pages
...therein :' as a beast in a snare, that cannot escape or help himself; so (2 Tim. ii. 4.) it is said, no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, 8§Eie crrpaTtvontvoq EjuTrAk'Erai &.c. So that you see that the world is a snare that entangleth men's... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 pages
...Tliou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that wan-eth entangh'th himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier, 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned,... | |
 | John Fletcher - Methodist Church - 1833 - 636 pages
...[this mere man!] Christ Jesus! Endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, [the same mere man.] No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs...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... | |
 | 1833 - 104 pages
...applied to your case, " Demas has forsaken us, having loved this present world." (2 Tim. iv. 10.) " 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.) When we consider that neither Jesus, Paul, nor... | |
 | John Kershaw Craig - 1833 - 328 pages
...occupations, between a holy Saviour and a wicked world.—So again, (2nd Epis. chap. ii. ver. 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." This, after all, is the reason why, with so many disciples, so... | |
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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. 
