 | 1828 - 498 pages
...plainly prescribed in 2 Tim. ii. 25, " In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves," for, " the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men." To yield to their inlreaties would be criminal ; it would lessen the importance of religion ; it would... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Bible - 1814 - 184 pages
...word of truth. But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if. GOD peradventurc... | |
 | 1842 - 634 pages
...for it, as things stand between Be and my child, but to obey the injunction of the apostle, 'And the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all mon, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure... | |
 | 1815 - 670 pages
...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all " men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting... | |
 | 1815 - 512 pages
...truth. These things are not easily borne with a becoming temper: but remember it is written, " The servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men; apt to teach, patient; in meekness inDirecting those that oppose themselves ;" — 2 Tim. ii. 34 —... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - English literature - 1815 - 702 pages
...may be kept out of the hands of Christian Teachers. What a strange comment on those words — " The " Servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all " men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing them that " oppose themselves," — is a bishop sitting... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - Dissenters, Religious - 1815 - 616 pages
...general. St. Paul, speaking more especially of those who are in the ministerial office, says : " And the s a point largely and particularly treated by the apostle in the apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure will... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - Trinity - 1816 - 510 pages
...should feel myself exposed to the frown of an offended Master. I know it is his command, that " the servant of the Lord must " not strive, but be gentle...meekness " instructing those that oppose themselves." To this command — (a command to which he who was " meek and lowly in " heart" himself set the example... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1816 - 600 pages
...have bound upon his hand, and stamped on his bean, those weighty admonitions of the Apostle. "And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God pcradventurc wjll... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 602 pages
...precept and .example of his Master. He continued to bless Ihcm that persecuted him; knowing that the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. To the last day he spent among them, he went straight forward, in meekness instructing... | |
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But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes ; and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure... 
