...earth shall sever, These he would ascribe for ever ? A CHRISTIAN'S DEVOTEDNESS. "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." —2 Timothy, ii. 4. HE who would win a warrior's fame, Must shun, with ever watchful...

...called to " endure hardship as good soldiers of Jesus Christ." Now "no man that warreth," we read, " entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." One, who is about to engage in labours, conflicts, and dangers, under some approved...

...prohibited marriage to their soldiery. To this the apostle refers, 2 Tim. ii. 4, " No one that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 10. The return of the conquering army has ever been an occasion of the most enthusiastic...

...that spirit which we desire ? We read * that a good soldier of Jesus Christ entangleth himself not with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier ; or, as Guyse explains it, ' he must not follow any civil calling, unprofitable reading,...

...Endure hardness an a good soldier of Jesus Christ, [the same mere man.] No man that warreth, entanglcth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.' See that thou then (he might have added, as indeed is implied)...

...others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 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. And if a man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully....

...life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 2 TIM. ii. 4 : 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. See on MAT. x. 9, 10. 5 And 'whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city,...

...says the Apostle to Timothy, " endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, 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. Now there are two things which suggest themselves to our minds, as necessarily following...

...unnecessary burdens with them, which may encumber or retard their march, he adds, No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him for a soldier1. Upon this it is that all those canons, which have been made in so many ages of the...

...at the remotest distance from all temptation to a secular or mercenary temper. " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath called him to be a soldier." Independently of the moral and religious considerations which enforce...