 | 1813 - 248 pages
...scene of revelry, is not always the house of real joy ! ON CONSCIENCE. ** Herein do I exercise myself, to have always " a conscience void of offence toward God " and toward men *." _LtIE languid approbation of .virtue, of a mere concurrence in the forms of reJigiori, will never... | |
 | John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pages
...description have we of this labor, from the conduct and the pen of St. Paul. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men. Acts, xxiv, 16. Happy the man who, by the grace of his God, is thus employed amidst the conflicting... | |
 | John Kingston - 1814 - 472 pages
...zeal, or to the other by worldly compliance, he steadily persevered in the path of duty, endeavouring to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men. " Secondly. \\ herever he saw a trial awaiting him, in the order of Providence, how terrific an aspect... | |
 | John Colquhoun - 1814 - 446 pages
...exercise of grace and performance of duty. Were the believer to be as diligent, in " exercising himself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men *," as in trying his evidences ; he would advance more speedily than he does, in the assurance of sense.... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pages
...examination of our own souls, into our motives, purposes, and ways of life, to see whether or not we "have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men " (Acts xxiv. 1 6). This is the witness of the conscience. When the accusers of the woman taken in... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pages
...order to keep a clear and Inoffensive conscience. The Apostle tells us, that "he exercised himself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men." The connexion of these words> and the occasion upon which tiu,y were spoken, may help us to discover... | |
 | Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 pages
...mentioned the hope of the resurrection, he adds, «and herein (on account of this) do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence ' toward God and toward men." In which admirable sentiment are at once expressed the active duties which exercise man, in his various... | |
 | Jean Calvin, John Allen - 1816 - 580 pages
...likewise extended to men, as when Luke states Paul to have made this declaration, " I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." (o) The apostle expressed himself in this manner, because the benefits proceeding from a good conscience... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 456 pages
...there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward GOD and toward men. Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. Whereupon certain Jews from... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 632 pages
...heaviness. SERMON XIII. J r On the Conscience void of Offence. ACTS, xxiv. 16. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God and toward men. words were spoken by the SERMON Apostle Paul, in the course of that manly and spirited defence which... | |
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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 
