 | Charles Richard Cameron - 1816 - 184 pages
...wise, prudish, and squeamish, and what not. But I made no answer, remembering that it is said, " 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." ~2 Tim. ii. 24, 25. While... | |
 | William Russel - Bible - 1816 - 122 pages
...carnal, but mighty through God, to the pulling down of strong holds ;" nay, he will find, that " the servant of the Lord must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in ineekness instructing those that oppose themselves ; if God peradventure... | |
 | England - 1822 - 780 pages
...objector to start an argument, viz. that St Paul, in his second Epistle to Timothy, says, "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 peradventnre will... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...think of the direction the apostle Paul gave to a zealous minister, 2 Tim. ii. 24 — 26. " 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 will... | |
 | New Jerusalem Church - 1818 - 556 pages
...heart : but foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they only engender strife : and the servant of the LORD must not strive ; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient : in meekness instructing those, who oppose themselves, if GOD peradventure will... | |
 | Thomas Young (minister of Zion Chapel, Margate.) - 1818 - 420 pages
...prejudices ; yea, even where there has been a long and inveterate struggle against the truth ; " 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 will... | |
 | 1818 - 806 pages
...of Christianity. The apostle's direction, in this respect, cannot be too much attended to. • 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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Sermons, American - 1819 - 616 pages
...duty. A Bishop must not be soon angry, says St. Paul, nor nlf -willed, but blameless, and patient. The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men ; in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves. While he is bound to rebuke them, that tin,... | |
 | 1819 - 896 pages
...turn that which is lame ont of the way ; but rather to heal it.' His advice to such is, thit ' 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 will... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that 'call on the Lord out of a pure heart. 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 will... | |
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