 | James Hervey - 1825 - 424 pages
...own. Ther. Surely, you forget the gracious manifesto published by the condescending King of heaven; 'if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted,...what a man hath, not according to what he hath not.'* Is it not plain from this text, that infinite goodness will admit our honest, though imperfect endeavours.... | |
 | 950 pages
...29,) be invited to contribute, " according as he purposeth in his heart," (2 Cor. ix. 7,) remembering that " if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what HB VOl. IV. F any one hath, and not according to what he hath not." (2 Cor. viii. 12.) Surely it is... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 568 pages
...agreeable to the discoveries made by the gospel, that he is most easily pleased by an upright mind 5 " 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," 2 Cor. viii. l^J. ^Vith a firm persuasion... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...agreeable to the discoveries made by the gospel, that he is .most easily pleased Jby an upright mind} " 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," 2 Cor. viii. 11J. With a firm persuasion of... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 362 pages
...carefully kept in view, that God is equal. It is unquestionably true, in great as well as in little things, 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;" II Cor. viii, 12. The extent of faith required... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 588 pages
...into the Lord's treasury, we are furnished with a beautiful exemplification of the apostle's doctrine, 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:" II Cor. viii, 12. Nor can we doubt that the... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 810 pages
...there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 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. IS For / mean not that other men be eased,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1825 - 344 pages
...of any but Christians of great attainments, we might sit down in discouragement. But, where there is a willing mind, it is accepted, according to what a man hath: and he blesses his own truth, not because tee speak it, but notwithstanding that we speak it, because... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1825 - 572 pages
...(in desire). Your two mites shall be valued above all the superfluities of sensual worldlings : " 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 P." But God taketh not that for a willing mind,... | |
 | 1832 - 534 pages
...quoted to quiet the conscience, and comfort the mind, in withholding " more than is meet." It is this, " if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not," which I understand to be, not only a gracious... | |
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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. 
