 | 636 pages
...conversation," and " show out of a good conversation our works with meekness of wisdom ?' How else can we " give to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear?" Bcxides, has not pious conversation an amazing influence in keeping alive... | |
 | Thomas Manton - 1845 - 624 pages
...(Heb. iii. 6 — 14). And therefore, we should be ready, with meekness and fear, always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us (1 Peter iii. 15). Ao/ov iXiriSoc is an account of our religion ; e'roipoi, ready to confess Christ... | |
 | John Summerfield - 1845 - 460 pages
...despair : if heaven is not to be attained, I cannot hope for it But we may obtain ! We " can give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear." Jesus died and revived that my faith and hope might be in God. " Blessed be... | |
 | John Foxe - 1845 - 1300 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1845 - 1174 pages
...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... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1846 - 18 pages
...to the meanest understanding ; by which we may, as the apostle directs, 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. And thus I have done with my subject, which probably I should not have chosen,... | |
 | 1846 - 956 pages
...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... | |
 | 1846 - 660 pages
...the spirit in which it is conducted. We ought not only to be " ready to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," but this we ought to do with " meekness and fear." We should not only speak the truth, but we should... | |
 | 784 pages
...been so often misunderstood and misrepresented. We should be "ready to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear." This Society also endeavours to enlighten the a' ic mind by the circulation... | |
 | 1847 - 918 pages
...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,... | |
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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. 
