 | 1816 - 696 pages
...confuted; if we are to ' be ready,' that is, if we are to be -qualified and prepared, ' to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us •' a penetration in abstruse questions, a quickness in philosophical discussion, a critical knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Horsley (bp. of St. Asaph.) - 1816 - 354 pages
...confuted, — if we are to be " ready," that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared, " to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," — a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical... | |
 | George Holden - 1819 - 538 pages
...by unbelievers, we add nothing to their faith, and we lessen, in vain, our own means ' of giving an answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us.' If the testimonies of the Old Testament had not been of great importance in every thing relative to... | |
 | 1820 - 140 pages
...hesitate to " witness a good confession bcfovo many witnesses." We must always be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a " reason of the hope that is in us." We must not, through indolence or fear, be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ ; remembering that " whosoever... | |
 | 1828 - 304 pages
...will do it, we are not at liberty to refuse an answer to their inquiries. We must "be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." Nor am I certain, that we can justly claim an exemption from even a rigorous inquisition, when there... | |
 | Samuel Charles Wilks - 1821 - 620 pages
...confuted ; if we are to be ' ready,' that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared, ' to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us' — a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical... | |
 | Willis Harris - 1821 - 344 pages
...books confuted —if we are to be ready, that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us:— then a penetration in abstruse questions; a familiar knowledge of the Jewish history, and of all parts... | |
 | 1838 - 504 pages
...branches of general education. It is a scriptural injunction, that we should " be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear." One of the fittest inquiries to which our reason can be applied, is, that... | |
 | 1881 - 1046 pages
...Scripture : ' I adj ure thee not to trifle with me ; St. Peter commands us to be ready always to give to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us.' These words broke for his victim the snare in which Satan was holding him ' My God, my God, assist... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1823 - 670 pages
...present support and everlasting felicity. — The apostle exhorts us to " be ready always to give " an answer to every man that asketh us a reason " of the hope that is in us."1 But while almost all we meet avow a hope of being saved, there are very few, that are able... | |
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... be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. 
