| Robert Balfour - 1819 - 262 pages
...similar C decision is given, 2 Cor. viii. 12. where the apostle declares, that, " if there be first a willing mind, it " is accepted according to that a man hath, and «« not according to that he hath not." This too is the plain import of the direction in his first... | |
| William Carus Wilson - 1822 - 516 pages
...fund, it brings down a blessing upon himself and family. The apostle says — "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." — If God should chasten us for our sins, what could prevent... | |
| William Bengo'. Collyer - 1819 - 82 pages
...ability, is equally applicable to the whole of our duties, of every description. ' For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The service can plead no merit, and advance no claims; for... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1820 - 264 pages
...thou canst, and thou 105 shah find acceptance, with- God. , 2 Cor. viii .12. For if there be first a willing: mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. The publican's prayer had not much rhetoric or eloquence in... | |
| 1821 - 506 pages
...always correspond with, the measure of obligation. The scriptures assure us, that, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. God requires of men that they should knots him ; and he has... | |
| 1821 - 494 pages
...marks the smallest offering cast into his treasury, and in whose word it js written, 'If there he first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The wnrk is not done, nor will it soon he finished. It will... | |
| 1822 - 796 pages
...in every nution, he tiiat feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him ,' and that, ' if there be a willing mind it is accepted according to that a man /,-nii, and not according to that he hath not."1 — P. 83. It is also true, that nothing but obstinate... | |
| William Gilpin - 1822 - 478 pages
...fcf * frst ffiniffMh of tlift nil- 'vft liffnthe ; Of « • < I . ' - .1 . I VIII. If there be Jirst a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.—Q Corinthians, riii. 12. oT. PAUL, in the chapter, from which... | |
| 1863 - 1198 pages
...back that which lias been committed to us for the advancement of His glory ; and, " if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." " The Lord loveth a cheerful giver." "Of all that Thou shall... | |
| William Gilpin - 1822 - 464 pages
...through this great consolation, let us continually go on our way rejoicing. VIII. If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.—2 Corinthians > viii. 12. oT. PAUL, in the chapter, from which... | |
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