 | 310 pages
...walk as dear children, to hold forth the Word of Life, and to keep ourselves unspotted from the world. We are besought " by the mercies of God," to " present " our bodies "a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God." (Rom. xii.) God speaketh unto us as unto sons. To encourage us to diligence... | |
 | Daniel Neal - Great Britain - 1817 - 564 pages
...temple, not to force tin-in in.'" '• If by the Aposile, (Rom. xii. 1.) we are beseeched as brethren, by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service or worship ; then is no man to be forced,... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Dissenters, Religious - 1818 - 332 pages
...ones " out of his temple, not to force them in. If by the Apostle " we are ' beseeched as brethren, by the mercies of God, to " ' present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable " « to God, which is our reasonable service,' or worship, " then is no man to be... | |
 | Charles Wheatly - 1819 - 576 pages
...but that what remains of it is very proper to be used after communicating. For St. Paul beseeches us, by the mercies of God, to present our Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, as our reasonable service10. And the fathers esteemed it one great part... | |
 | William Jay - Meditations - 1829 - 592 pages
...ask, every moment, What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me ? Ought we not, by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice ? " Were the whole realm of Nature mine, " That were a present far too small : " Love so amazing, so... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1831 - 316 pages
...servants to men; but to glorify God in our bodies and spirits, which are his; and the apqstle beseeches us by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God; which is our reasonable service. Forasmuch, as we know that we were not... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...in by edicts and force of arms. For, if by the apostle (Bom. xii. 1) "we are beseeched, as brethren, by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service" or worship, then is no man to be forced by... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Families - 1842 - 1004 pages
...Lord for all his benefits ? We would this day renew our engagements to be Christ's, being constrained, by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to him, which is our reasonable service. Fill us with a hatred of all sin and a... | |
 | Elhanan Winchester - Universalism - 1844 - 722 pages
...servants to men; but to glorify God in our bodies and spirits, which are his; and the apostle beseeches us by the mercies of God, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable onto God ; which is our reasonable service. Forasmuch, as we know that we were not... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...in by edicts and force of arms. For if by the apostle, Rom. xii. 1, we are " beseeched as brethren by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is onr reasonable service," or worship, then is no man to be forced... | |
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beseeched as brethren by the mercies of God to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is our reasonable service... 
