 | 1820 - 562 pages
...apostle greatly agitated his mind. 2 Timothy ii. 4: No man that warreth, entangleth himself with tlu affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. His mind, however, was relieved, when he reflected, that the apostle Paul himself, when with a people... | |
 | Willis Harris - 1821 - 344 pages
...discipline of the army, to this the apostle alludes, when writing to Timothy, he saith, " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier:" applying it at the same time to a soldier of the cross. Of himself... | |
 | 1843 - 684 pages
...them not." Certainly, a good conscience is a continual feast, and enough for a happy life. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. We should be but little encumbered with the things of this world, and withal, free from a world of... | |
 | 1822 - 494 pages
...minister to " gire himself wholly to these things, that his profiting may appear to all ; for no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier ;"* we are taught that an undivided attention to the ministry... | |
 | 1822 - 526 pages
...this law the apostle refers: no one that tvarreth, ENTANGLETH HIMSELF WITH THE AYPAIRS OF -THIS LITE? that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. (2 Tim. il. 4.)*' " The names of those who died or were cashiered for misconduct, were expunged from... | |
 | Whitlock Nicol - 1823 - 356 pages
...Thess. v. 6. ' 1 Thfiss. v. 8. m 1 Peter, v. 8, 9. v Eph. vi. 13—18, vi. 1 1. " Luke, xii. 35, 30. that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier°." " And let us not be weary in well-doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not P." " Resist... | |
 | George Coles - 1823 - 204 pages
...before many witnesses. O keep that which is committed to thy trust ; and remember that no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life: that he may please the captain of his salvation, who hath chosen him to be a soldier; and that though a man strive for... | |
 | John William Cunningham - 1823 - 374 pages
...temperate in all things." " No man that warreth, entanglelh himself with the affairs of this world, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." " So run I, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body,... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1823 - 438 pages
...soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No one who warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; but that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And also if any one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend according to the laws.... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...preferring (or prejudice) one before another, doing nothing by partiality. — 1 Tim. v.21. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. — 2 Tim. ii. 4. In all things shewing thyself a pattern : &c. in doctrine, shewing uncorruptness,... | |
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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. 
