 | James Ussher - 1660 - 628 pages
...state of unregeneracy, are under the power of Satan. Mark the apostle's words : " Inh meekness instruct those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who... | |
 | George Bishop - 1703 - 598 pages
...flesh and blood, but with principalities, and powers, and spiritual wickedness in high places;" "and in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves,...God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." — See 2 Tim. ii. 25. And the Son of God tells you, that he came not... | |
 | Archibald Bower - 1731 - 572 pages
...Meeknefs. And* Fourthly, Inforces the particular ReafOn, with regard to the Perfons to be inftrufted, if God peradventure will give them Repentance to the Acknowledgment of the Truth. SERMON the eighth, [OfCbriJl's calling Sinners to Repentance, from Matt. 2. 17.} Firft, Makes fome... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1748 - 438 pages
...religion, to jhew all gentlenefs to all men, and in meeknefs to inftruft thofe that oppofe themfelves, if God peradventure -will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth. They did not go about to convert men by armed force, and ways of violence and cruelty. It is a fign... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1771 - 622 pages
...Verfes, he gives him this advice, that he fhould ' inftrudl in mecknefs thofe who oppofe themfelves, if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth.' Where the particle tranflated, if peradvmturt, is the very fame with that which in our text is rendered... | |
 | William Penn - 1782 - 514 pages
...violence for reclaiming oppofers, fo the reafon of the counfel makes all other ways unlawful, viz. " If God peradventure will " give them repentance to the acknowledgment of " the truth." I would hereupon enter the lifts with a perfecutor : is repentance in my own power, or is it in thine... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1854 - 338 pages
...wheat, and suffers no small inconvenience thereby to avoid a greater, and further declares that the servant of the lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach (not to strike) patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure... | |
 | 1811 - 632 pages
...worketh not the righteousness of God; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle uuto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing...God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.' I CANNOT DIE-! TN August last, four men named Marshall, Sawer, lin, and... | |
 | 1802 - 596 pages
...reviled, and abused in scurrilous pamphlets ; but we hope still we shall be enabled to goon undismayed, " in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves,...God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth." " \Ve entertain no doubt respecting the goodness and importance of the... | |
 | 1810 - 582 pages
...must not be opposed with the same weapons. The servants of the Lord must not strive, as for mastery ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that pppoie themselves, if God, peradvenliire, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth.... | |
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But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure... 
