 | James Augustus Hessey - 1861 - 602 pages
...and feeling from principle, that if applied generally, it would render us incapable " of giving an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." Its extreme development is exhibited in that notorious line, " He can't be wrong whose life is in the... | |
 | 1861 - 420 pages
...at all times able and ready to confirm the faith of our weak brethren, and always ready 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 ; that whereas they backbite us as... | |
 | Jabez Bunting - 1861 - 546 pages
...realize in experience, and the duties of which we endeavour to exemplify; being "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." Let us not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln.) - 1861 - 132 pages
...be able to convince others that this proposition is true. It is necessary to be always ready to give to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. Let us examine ourselves, whether we are able to do this. Let those who have hitherto built their 3... | |
 | Jabez Bunting - 1862 - 484 pages
...realize in experience, and the duties of which we endeavor to exemplify ; being "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." Let us not be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, which is the power of God unto... | |
 | John Owen - 1862 - 576 pages
...out of the new Jerusalem, Rev. xxi. 8. Peter, indeed, instructs us to be " ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, /ttrA <p6Zw," — "with fear," 1 Epist. iii. 15; that is, with reverence unto God and the sacredness... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pages
...SERIES. 40 this question, because not only is it incumbent upon us to be " ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," but to justify our Nonconformity also by reference to the historical facts which produced, and still... | |
 | William Jenkins (L.C.M.) - 1863 - 56 pages
...itself. Besides all this, we are expressly told to "prove all things," "to be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," " earnestly to contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints," and "to convince the... | |
 | William Goode - 1863 - 350 pages
...the grounds upon which our faith rests. We are exhorted by an apostle, to be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. Our own faith also is thus strengthened and confirmed. We derive satisfaction and comfort, amidst those... | |
 | Richard Lowndes - 1864 - 150 pages
...hold the Christian faith, we should understand the principles of that faith, and be " ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us •." " The preparations of the heart in man," says Solomon, "and the answer of the tongue, is from... | |
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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. 
