 | Samuel Horsley - 1827 - 596 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... | |
 | 1827 - 600 pages
...injoined. It is the command of the church's Head, that we should "be always ready to give to every one that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us, with fear." And the great inquiry with us, in every thing that concerns our faith and practice, should... | |
 | John Ryland - 1827 - 130 pages
...CANDID STATEMENT, we are directed, by the apostle Peter,6 to be ready to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us ; so would we wish to do the same as to every part of our religious practice ; and we desire to do... | |
 | Temple Chevallier - 1827 - 454 pages
...an inexhaustible variety of great and noble objects. It commands us to be ready to give to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us;' and therefore calls for the exercise of all our rational faculties; for patience to collect, and carefulness... | |
 | John Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury - 1828 - 450 pages
...false prophets and lying teachers among the people ;(*) so long as we should always be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness ;w so long as it is necessary to distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit of error... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1828 - 832 pages
...furniture for conversation with the well-disposed enquirer, as means for giving an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. We shall thus feel the ground on which we stand. We shall be fortified against the impressions of scorn.... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1829 - 168 pages
...prophets, and lying teachers, among the people ;' — so long as we should always be ready to give an answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness; — so long as it is necessary ' to distinguish the spirit of truth from the spirit... | |
 | Edward Garrard Marsh - 1829 - 382 pages
...in the text, my brethren, that it is incumbent upon us at all times to give an answer to every one, that asketh us a reason of the hope, that is in us, with meekness and fear. The honour of God demands, that we should be always ready to do this; for his... | |
 | Christopher Ralph Muston - 1830 - 458 pages
...importance of guarding against the fatal rock of self-delusion, and of 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. It is the part of christian charity, rather than the violation of its spirit,... | |
 | 1834 - 504 pages
...Him the foolish reveries of his own fancy. If we are truly inspired, we shall be ever ready to give, to every man that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. We are influenced by no rash and headlong confidence when we boast in hope... | |
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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. 
