...are, at all times, able and ready to confirm the faith of our weak brethren, 'and always reddy to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, and that with meekness and reverence, having a good conscience ; and whereas they backbite us as evil-doers,...

...the " riches of the full assurance of the understanding," then surely it cannot be difficult to give to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. This high attainment of knowledge is the privilege of him only who labors to comprehend Christ, us...

...COMMUTES. ON the same principle on which it is of importance that we should "lie ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that ia in us," it is desirable that we should be prepared to assign a motive for our engaging in any religious...

...answering others, sometimes as he did by silence, and sometimes also as St. Peter speaketh l, being ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us ; which our Saviour did observe with such coldness and moderation, as he caused his gainsayers to be...

...every one ought to cherish, will make us ready to obey the apostolic command to be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us ; for our Lord hath said that, whosoever will not honestly confess His name and believe His words,...

...; and it may be well for us periodically to examine ourselves, whether we be " ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us."f That hope must rest eventually on the evidence of Christianity, and of that evidence the completion...

...And it is the particular exhortation of St. Peter to each of us, " That we be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." " Now, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God ;" so only, then, can we be enabled...

...you have done." " Since we are commanded by the Apostle (1 Pet. iii. 15) to ' be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us,' I will, with pleasure, gratify your desire, and I hope, too, in that spirit of ' meekness and fear,'...

...prophecies are the only key, we can only fairly represent Him in our day and generation, when we are ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us from the prophetic character and tendency of these very events, as we shall be enabled to do from a...

...decree emanating from the so-called chair of St. Peter. St. Peter himself has taught us " to be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us ;"* and that you, my brethren, may be able to give this answer, I ask that you would follow me while...