| John Fletcher - 1830 - 364 sayfa
...appearance of evil. Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ." For " herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men." And " our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity,... | |
| John Miller - 1830 - 544 sayfa
...MAN, RESPECTIVELY, ILLUSTRATED BY THE EXAMPLE OF ST. PAUL. ACTS xxiv. 16. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. THIS is a declaration of St. Paul, pleading before Felix. " I have hope toward God," he says, " that... | |
| Thomas Best - 1831 - 328 sayfa
...I am not of the world." He desires to " abstain from all appearance of evil.'' Herein lie exercises himself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. He " watches and prays that he enter not into temptation." He is one of those who " are taught of God... | |
| Archibald Hall - 1831 - 472 sayfa
...all the people; and he profited in his studies above the greater part of his countrymen. He exercised himself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men ; and as touching the righteousness of the Jewish law, he was blameless, both in his own eyes, and... | |
| John Whitecross - 1831 - 302 sayfa
...became, from that lime, a serrous Christian. Chap, xxiv, ver. 16. — And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. Two monks having come one day to William Rufus, king of England, to buy an Abhot's place, who outreached... | |
| John Wesley - 1831 - 466 sayfa
...out of all question. He could not only say, when he was a Christian, " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men," Acts xxiv. 16 : but even concerning the time when he was a Pharisee: " Men and brethren, I have lived... | |
| George Fox - 1831 - 512 sayfa
...matters, or in things too high for me.' Psalm cxxxi. 1. And the apostle said, ' I do exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men.' Acts. xxiv. 16. And the apostle writes to Timothy, to exercise himself unto godliness, for bodily exercise... | |
| James Yonge - 1831 - 482 sayfa
...i. 3, &c. SERMON VI. A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE. ACTS xxiv. 16. And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. THESE words form a part of St. Paul's memorable defence of himself against the accusation of his enemies... | |
| Richard Hele - 1832 - 402 sayfa
...sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of 6 . And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men 7. O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes; then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect... | |
| George Young - 1832 - 256 sayfa
...supposed to require some signal judgment. It is of unspeakahle moment, amidst afflictions and dangers, " to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men." "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God."* The method proposed for... | |
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