| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...bear witness in our favour ; to be able to look our worst enemy in the face undaunted, and to " give every one that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us ;" to walk through the wilderness of life, and the valley of death, and " fear no evil:" is not... | |
| George Hay (bp. of Daulis.) - 1822 - 402 pages
...salvation, ought to shew itself principally in these following points: (1.)" To be always ready to satisfy every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is iu us," 1 Pet. iii. 15. ; that is, to be always willing and ready to explain our holy faith to them,... | |
| William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 378 pages
...Hence, in a passage already quoted, the apostle Peter exhorts " to be ready always to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and with fear."c In another passage, also quoted from the apostle a Acts x. 42,... | |
| Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 pages
...volume displays an inexhaustible variety of great and noble objects. It commands us to be ready to give to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us;' and therefore calls for the exercise of all our rational faculties; for patience to collect,... | |
| 1827 - 600 pages
...revealed and injoined. It is the command of the church's Head, that we should "be always ready to give to every one that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us, with fear." And the great inquiry with us, in every thing that concerns our faith and practice,... | |
| John Ryland - 1827 - 130 pages
...JAN. 29, 1827. CANDID STATEMENT, we are directed, by the apostle Peter,6 to be ready to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us ; so would we wish to do the same as to every part of our religious practice ; and we desire... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1828 - 832 pages
...servants, as furniture for conversation with the well-disposed enquirer, as means for giving an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. We shall thus feel the ground on which we stand. We shall be fortified against the impressions... | |
| Edward Garrard Marsh - 1829 - 382 pages
...you are taught in the text, my brethren, that it is incumbent upon us at all times to give an answer to every one, that asketh us a reason of the hope, that is in us, with meekness and fear. The honour of God demands, that we should be always ready to do this;... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1829 - 354 pages
...servants, as furniture for conversation with the well-disposed inquirer, as means for giving an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in to. We shall thus feel the ground on which we stand. We shall be fortified against the impressions... | |
| Jacques Samuel Pons, Richard Cattermole - 1832 - 342 pages
...helps which intellect and knowledge can supply. We must " be ready to give an answer," on every point, "to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." Be careful, then, not to consider your ministry as an office transmitted passively, and which... | |
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