 | Christopher Sutton - 1847 - 484 pages
...sometimes as he did by silence, and sometimes also as St. Peter speaketh l, being ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us ; which our Saviour did observe with such coldness and moderation, as he caused his gainsayers to be... | |
 | 1847 - 810 pages
...and it may be well for us periodically to examine ourselves, whether we be " ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us."f That hope must rest eventually on the evidence of Christianity, and of that evidence the completion... | |
 | John Foxe - 1848 - 830 pages
...that we are at all times able 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, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that whereas they back-bite us as evil doers, they... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1848 - 252 pages
...satisfied ourselves of the reasonable probability, and be " ready always to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." l 1 1 Peter iii. 15. KNOWLEDGE OF EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN. I count the hope no day-dream of the mind,... | |
 | Christopher Sutton - 1848 - 324 pages
...both for the strengthening of our faith, and direction of our life, to give an answer unto every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, as Saint Peter saith. Last of all, we may learn by some of our Saviour's answers, to have respective... | |
 | John Brown - 1848 - 488 pages
...being stated in a distinct manner to others. If we would " be ready to give an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," we must attend to the wise man's declaration, " The heart of the wise studieth to answer." l We must... | |
 | Samuel Best (hon.) - 1849 - 178 pages
...And it is the particular exhortation of St. Peter to each of us, " That we be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." " Now, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God ;" so only, then, can we be enabled... | |
 | 1854 - 500 pages
...every account, proper that we should be so well acquainted with these grounds as to be able to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear. ' As to the propriety and importance of giving instruction in the Evidences... | |
 | John Lewis - 1855 - 390 pages
...ignorance of this Antichrist. The Apostle Peter commands us to be ready always to give an l Epist.iii. answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear. And Paul orders a bishop to be apt to teach, or able to exhort in sound doctrine,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1855 - 490 pages
...but, whatever may be the effect on you, they are the "answer" which we are required to " give to any man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." SERMON IY, THE CONDITION OF MAN NOT BENEFITTED BY THE REJECTION OF CHKISTIANITY. JOHN vi. 68. — "... | |
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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. 
