| William Russel - 1816 - 122 pages
...warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds ;" nay, he will find, that " the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in ineekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure will give them... | |
| 1816 - 600 pages
...have bound upon his hand, and stamped on his bean, those weighty admonitions of the Apostle. "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 pcradventurc wjll give them repentance... | |
| Charles Richard Cameron - 1816 - 184 pages
...wise, prudish, and squeamish, and what not. But I made no answer, remembering that it is said, " 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." ~2 Tim. ii. 24, 25. While she continued... | |
| Ralph Wardlaw - 1816 - 510 pages
...of men, I should feel myself exposed to the frown of an offended Master. I know it is his command, that " the servant of the Lord must " not strive, but be gentle unto all men — patient, in meekness " instructing those that oppose themselves." To this command — (a command... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 pages
...think of the direction the apostle Paul gave to a zealous minister, 2 Tim. ii. 24 — 26. " 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 will give them... | |
| 1822 - 780 pages
...objector to start an argument, viz. that St Paul, in his second Epistle to Timothy, says, "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 peradventnre will give these... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 568 pages
...by it, viz. That a minister should be ready, meekly to condescend to and instruct opposers; And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt t<* teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will... | |
| Thomas Young (minister of Zion Chapel, Margate.) - 1818 - 420 pages
...prejudices ; yea, even where there has been a long and inveterate struggle against the truth ; " 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 will give them repentance... | |
| 1818 - 806 pages
...of Christianity. The apostle's direction, in this respect, cannot be too much attended to. • 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 will give them... | |
| 1818 - 556 pages
...heart : but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they only engender strife : and the servant of the LORD must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient : in meekness instructing those, who oppose themselves, if GOD peradventure will give them... | |
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