 | 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,...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. He must watch, too, against a dozing away of time: the clock-weight goes down slowly, yet it draws... | |
 | 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...; 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 unless he contend according... | |
 | Seth Coleman, Nathan Perkins - Funeral sermons - 1817 - 306 pages
...stand." If he would war with sucsess in the spiritual warfare, he must be watchful that he entangle not himself " with the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." After my admission at College, I was much agitated with anxiety about the consequences of changing... | |
 | Hugh Pearson - Educators - 1819 - 432 pages
...that spirit which we desire? We read ' that a good soldier of Jesus Christ en* tangleth himself not with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier ;' or, as Guyse explains it, ' he must not follow any civil calling, unprofitable reading, or unnecessary... | |
 | Hugh Pearson - Clergy - 1817 - 556 pages
...desire ? We read « that a good " soldier of Jesus Christ entangleth himself not with the af" fairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen " him to be a soldier;' or, as Guyse explains it, « he must " not follow any civil calling, unprofitable reading, or unne"... | |
 | 1817 - 842 pages
...hardness, as a good soldier of Jésus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with thé aflfairs 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, except he strive lawfully. 6 The husbandman... | |
 | 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:... | |
 | Hugh Pearson - Anglican Communion - 1818 - 712 pages
...desire ? We read « that a good " soldier of Jesus Christ entangleth himself not with the af" fairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen " him to. be a soldier;' or, as Guyse explains it, • he must " not follow any civil calling, unprofitable reading, or unne"... | |
 | George Tomline - Bible - 1818 - 608 pages
...their profession, but rather considers it as furnishing full employment for those who engaged in it : " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, (p) Acts, c. 25. v. 11. (q) Luke, c. 3. v. 14. (r) Acts, c. 10. v. i, &c. AUT. iikvn.] Thirty-nine... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal lifer. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier1. The Lord is at hand. Be careful for nothing ; but in every thing, by prayer and supplication,... | |
| |
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. 
