 | Thomas Alexander Boswell - France - 1826 - 302 pages
...enjoins to those on whom he addresses himself, submission and obedience to the ordinances of man: — " As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness ; but as the servants of God. Honour all men : love the brotherhood : fear God : honour the King." And from these... | |
 | Martin Luther - Theology - 1826 - 646 pages
...who, falsdrf relying upon it, and trusting to it, grow indolent: with reference to whom Peter saitfy "As free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God;" 1 Pet. ii. 16. As though he had said, The liberty of faith does not give a licence... | |
 | Martin Luther - 1826 - 1226 pages
...law, of thine own accord, do what thou oughtest to do ; as Peter, 1 Epist. ii. admonishes, saying, " As free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God." And Paul also, Rom. vi. " Being then made free from sin, ye are become the servants... | |
 | Robert Pedder Buddicom - 1826 - 488 pages
...does it command you to receive the spiritual deliverance which it declares and conveys ? As free, yet not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. The same revelation of mercy which proclaims liberty to the captives, binds you to... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...and for the praise of them that do well ; (for so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men ;) as free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God.... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1827 - 382 pages
...words of St. Peter, seem to allude :— " For so is the will of God, that with " well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men : •' as free and not using your, liberty for a r.louk of maliciousness " (ie sedition,) but as the servants of God." After all, if any one think this... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...and for the praise of them that do well ; (for so is the will of God, that with well-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men ;) as free, and not using your liberty for & cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God.... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...them that are pent by him for the punishment of evil doers, and for the praise of them that do well. As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as tlio servants of God. (Rom. xiii. 1 to the 8th verse.) lieb. xin. 17. Obey them that have the rulo... | |
 | 1827 - 590 pages
...discipline is the great cause of the prevailing corruption of manners. The text was 1 Peter ii. 16. — At free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. — From which Mr. S. observed, that the peculiar truths of divine revelation, the... | |
 | Joseph Butler - Sermons, English - 1827 - 376 pages
...Seing the day appointed to be observed as the day of the Martyrdom of King Charlei I. 1 PETER ii. 16. And not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. A history so full of important and interesting events, as that which this day recalls... | |
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Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well. 
