| James Ussher - Theology - 1625 - 642 pages
...satisfaction to the afflicted conscience. The speech of every Christian, we know, should be employed " tod the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers :" and a private brother in his place may deliver sound doctrine, reprehend vice, exhort to righteousness,... | |
| Edward Pelling - Lord's Supper - 1692 - 300 pages
...in your familiar difcourfe. Swear not at all, Matth. j. 34. Blefs, but curfe not, Rom. n. i4. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the ufe of edifying, that it may minifter Grace unto the hearers, Ephef. 4. 19. And let your fpeech be... | |
| John AUSTIN (Roman Catholic Writer.) - 1706 - 662 pages
...working with his Hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth, but that which is good to the ufe of Edifying, that it may minifter Grace to the Hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,... | |
| Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pages
...Eph, 4. I5. ' Strive not about Words, to no Profit, but to the fubverting or" the Hearers. b Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth, but that which is good, to the^ ufe of edifying, that it may Minifter Grace to the Hearers. c Strengthen ye the weak Hands, and con(irm... | |
| William Law - Christian ethics - 1726 - 552 pages
...conduct our felves, with Regard to the Spirit of God, is fully fet forth in the following AVords : Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth, but that which is good to the Ufe of edifying, that it may minifter Grace unto the Hearers, and grieve not the Holy Spirit of God,... | |
| John Sharp (abp. of York.) - 1734 - 436 pages
...from fome Scruples which have been raifed from two or three particular Texts. EPHES. iv. 29. Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth^ but that which is good, to the Ufe of Edifying ; that it- may minijler Grace to the Hearers. SER M. XIV. p. 344. JAMES i. 13. Let... | |
| John Sharp (abp. of York.) - 1734 - 516 pages
...account to be corrupt Communication. And this they gather from the Words of the Text, Let no cor~ rupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth, but that which is good, to the Ufe of Edifying, that it may minifter Grace to the Hearers. And there are two other Texts in the New... | |
| John Sharp (abp. of York.) - 1734 - 422 pages
...intimates. For in the Verfe before, he gives them this Caution; Let no corrupt Communication,^^fays he, proceed out of your Mouth, but that •which is good, to the Ufe of edifying, that it may minifter Grace to the Hearers. And then it follows in the Text, Grieve... | |
| Adam Batty - Sermons, English - 1739 - 346 pages
...fhall be condemned, even as they have condemn'd, without Mercy. SERMON SERMON X. EPHE S. IV. 2p. Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth, but that which is good for the U/'e of Edifying, that it may minijler Grace unto the Hearers. JAVING already con fid ered... | |
| Adam Batty - 1740 - 648 pages
...Punifhments, weeping and wailing and gnajhing of 'Teeth. SERMON [ "79 ] SERMON IX. EPHES. iv. iy. Let no corrupt Communication proceed out of your Mouth ; but that which is good for the Ufe of edifying, that it may mintfter Grace unto the Hearers. HESE Words feem intended to regulate... | |
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