| William Carus Wilson - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...blessing upon himself and family. The apostle says — "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." — If God should chasten us for our sins, what could prevent a similar national judgment ? The heaven... | |
| Robert Balfour - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...given, 2 Cor. viii. 12. where the apostle declares, that, " if there be first a willing mind, it " is accepted according to that a man hath, and «« not according to that he hath not." This too is the plain import of the direction in his first epistle to the Corinthians, chap. xvi. 1,... | |
| William Bengo'. Collyer - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 82
...applicable to the whole of our duties, of every description. ' For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The service can plead no merit, and advance no claims; for even the Psalmist said, 64 ' My goodness... | |
| Robert Balfour - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...given, 2 Cor. viii. 12. where the apostle declares, that, " if there be first a willing mind, it " is accepted according to that a man hath, and " not according to that he hath hot." This too is the plain import of the direction in his first epistle to the Corinthians, chap.... | |
| Thomas Brooks - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 264
...105 shah find acceptance, with- God. , 2 Cor. viii .12. For if there be first a willing: mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. The publican's prayer had not much rhetoric or eloquence in it, " God be merciful to me a sinner,"... | |
| Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...soever, it ventures to pay, in sure confidence that they will be grateful to that Being, which accepteth according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not, 2 Cor. viii. 12. Thus does external adoration become a point of natural homage, due to the supreme... | |
| 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...cast into his treasury, and in whose word it is written, ' If there he first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The work is not done, nor will it soon he finished. It will not he complete even when the hundreds... | |
| 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...the measure of obligation. The scriptures assure us, that, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. God requires of men that they should knots him ; and he has endowed them with an understanding capable... | |
| 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 740
...cast into his treasury, and in whose word it is written, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath uot." The work is not done, nor will it soon be finished. It will not be complete even when the hundreds... | |
| William Hey - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...their liberality, builds his reasoning upon this maxim. " If there be a willing mind," says he, " it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." 2 Corinthians viii. 12. There is no man, I believe, who can doubt of the reasonableness of this determination... | |
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