 | Emperors - 1799 - 200 pages
...Dominid:* — " Interrogate the bishops and abbots closely on the meaning of the words of the apostle, ' No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life.' Inquire from them to whom these words apply. Desire them to tell us plainly what is the meaning of... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...exhortation of St. Paul to Timothy, the primitive pattern and scriptural example of what ministers should be. "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.1' 2 Tim. ii. 4. iii. The present number of dioceses to be doubled, so that instead of twentysix... | |
 | Theophilus Browne - 1805 - 274 pages
...others also. Do 3 thou therefore endure hardship like a good soldier of Jesus Christ. NoT?, no soldier entangleth himself <• with the affairs of this life, that he may please his general. And in the 5 games also, no man winneth a crown, unless he contend according to the rales... | |
 | James Meikle - Travelers - 1811 - 476 pages
...port, having more noble things in view, life and liberty to defend, and enemies to subdue ; so, *? no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who has chosen him to be a soldier." We are never out of danger while at sea ; for, though it be a time... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 438 pages
...the king's bounty that is given. The apostle tells us that this servant of the Lord is a warrior : " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life." He that kneeled down to drink water at the river Jordan was sent back as not fit for the field, none... | |
 | James Meikle - Meditations - 1812 - 384 pages
...with the affairs of the land, as we belong to thfe sea ; so must the saint not entangle himself in the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a spiritual soldier. 5. We are all maintained by the King ; so are all Christians by the throne of Heaven.... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 376 pages
...God. (#) Be not conformed to this world ; but be ye transformed by the. renewing of your mind. (y) No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may pleas* him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Thou therefore endure • hardness as a good soldier... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himv.-lfwith the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath 0<xa. 13 chosen him to be a soldier. Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Meditate... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...be able to teaeh others also. 3 Thou, therefore, endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the...affairs of this life, that he may please him, who hath ehosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not erowned exeept... | |
 | Jacob Kerr - Presbyterians - 1814 - 420 pages
...least appeared so to be, that he might be eonsidered a soldier of Jesus Christ, in word and in deed. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath ehosen him to be a soldier.—2 Tim. ii, 4.. But he, unmindful of the foregoing text, strived for the... | |
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No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. 
