...of Christian evidence to our own minds, and of the " answer that we should be ready always to give to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear."4 The study of unfulfilled prophecy — if it be a general duty — is not in all cases the immediate...

...the historv of the Gospel, that it not only enables us, but commands us, to be ready always to givc an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in vs. But after all, we must allow, that the great majority of believers in every country, profess...

...furniture for conversation with the well-disposed inquirer, as means for " giving an answer to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." We shall thus feel the ground on which we stand. We shall be fortified against the impressions of scorn....

...intellect and knowledge can supply. We must " be ready to give an answer," on every point, "to every one that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." Be careful, then, not to consider your ministry as an office transmitted passively, and which leaves...

...Spirit. You will remember, however, that the apostle Peter has exhorted us to " be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us."* If, therefore, we embrace a hope for which we have no reason to give, we transgress this apostolical...

...purport of it; in order to enable me, together withothers, as members of the Established Church, " to be ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us:" I submit to you, then, the following questions for your solution : Question 1st. " And, by his authority...

...lest at any time we should let them slip1;" while we are also admonished to " be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear2." And though the necessity of such preparation be more urgent at some periods than at others,...

...same authority which commands us not to be slothful in business, enjoins us to be ready always to yive an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and reverence,—while no species of knowledge calculated to benefit its members will be neglected,—instruction...

...books confuted ; if we are to be ' ready,' that is, if we are to be qualified c and prepared, ' to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us;' a penetration in abstruse questions, a quickness in philosophical discussion, a critical knowledge...

...confuted ; if we are to be 'ready,' — that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared, — ' to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us,' — a penetration in abstruse questions, a quickness in philosophical discussion, a critical knowledge...