 | Thomas Scott - 1826 - 424 σελίδες
...he made no use of any but Christians of great attainments, we might sit down in discouragement. But, where there is a willing mind, it is accepted, according to what a man hath: and he blesses his own truth, not because we speak it, but notwithstanding that we speak it, because it... | |
 | Thom Scott - 1826 - 520 σελίδες
...he made no use of any but Christians of great attainments, we might sit down in discouragement. But, where there is a willing mind, it is accepted, according to what a man hath : and he blesses his own truth, not because we speak it, but notwithstanding that we speak it, because it... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor - 1826 - 628 σελίδες
...cannot take away your poverty, but I can ease your spirit ; and " God accepts us" (saith the Apostle) " according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." Only as our desires are great, and our spirits are willing, so we shall find ways to make supply of... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - 1827 - 508 σελίδες
...him.. It being true of every moral action, what St. Paul has affirmed of alms-giving, " It shall be accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not," &c. Bp. Sherlock's Discourses, vol. ii. p. 121. " The death of our Saviour, when he did die, was just... | |
 | William Jay - 1828 - 408 σελίδες
...crutches are a help and a blessing to the lame : and we know who hath said, " Where there is first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." The third regards Shame. " We are ashamed to begin !" What ! ashamed of your glory ? Ashamed of following... | |
 | Lyman Beecher - 1828 - 380 σελίδες
...with fearful punishment ? Shall not the judge of all the earth do right ? Are not all his requisitions according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not ? The commands of God are the measure and the evidence of human ability. He is not an hard master,... | |
 | 1820 - 688 σελίδες
...capacity for discrimination is plead. Hut how run this be an excuse, when the demand of heaven is only according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. It is as reasonable, that an intellect relatively feeble should be exercised in the study of the bible,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 632 σελίδες
...cannot take away your poverty, but I can ease your spirit; and " God accepts us" (saith the Apostle) "according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." Only as our desires are great, and our spirits are willing, so we shall find ways to make supply of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 560 σελίδες
...all that we can, and desire more, and pursue more,. it ia accepted as if we had done all : for we are accepted " according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath note." Unless we can neither endeavour, nor desire, c Matt. v. 12. 1 Cor. iii. 8. Matt. xvi. 27. 2... | |
 | 1829 - 560 σελίδες
...kingdom. And as to pecuniary assistance, as well as every other kind of service, " If there, be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he halb not." ,2 Cur. viii. 19. ix. 5, 7, &c. So offerings of goat's hair were as acceptable as gold,... | |
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Abraham to sacrifice his son, (Heb. xi. 17,) according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12: "Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not:" which is true of this church duty, as well as of that... 
