 | Family prayers - 1824 - 128 pages
...contrariwise blessing". May we sanctify the 9* Lord God in our hearts, and 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 feary having a good conscience; that whereas, others speak evil of us, as of evil-doers,... | |
 | John Hewlett - 1825 - 516 pages
...if, preparing us at all times <rto sanctify the Lord God in our hearts, they make us ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear." SERMON V. ON THE PARABLE OF THE TAREE AND THE WHEAT. MATT. xm. 28, 29The servants... | |
 | Mary Dudley, Elizabeth Dudley - 1825 - 398 pages
...met thee, believing it is consistent with the duty we owe one to another, to ' be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear .' I believe, when this is done in the spirit of love, which is that of the... | |
 | Mary Dudley (quaker.) - 1825 - 400 pages
...met thee, believing it is consistent with the duty we owe one to another, to ' be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear.' I believe, when this is done in the spirit of love, which is that of the gospel,... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...any effects of rage and passion to bring men to our sentiments, we are taught to "be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us/' the grounds of our persuasion, " with meekness and fear," 1 Pet. iii. 15. The same spirit and temper... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 418 pages
...the glory of God," Rom. v. 2. When we are exhorted, 1 Pet. iii. 1 5. to " be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," I apprehend our faith, or that truth we believe, is that reason, and not our own righteousness or qualifications.... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 568 pages
...any effects of rage and passion to bring men to our sentiments, we are taught to "be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," the grounds of our persuasion, " with meekness and fear," 1 Pet. iii. 15. The same spirit and temper... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1825 - 632 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... | |
 | 1826 - 568 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 ; a penetration in abstruse questions, a quickness in philosophical discussion, a critical knowledge... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 378 pages
...passage already quoted, the apostle Peter exhorts " to be ready always to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and with fear."c In another passage, also quoted from the apostle a Acts x. 42, 43. b... | |
| |
... 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. 
