 | Robert Nares - 1794 - 366 pages
...1794. ROBERT NARES. DISCOURSE I. OH THE MEANS OF REVIVING THE TRUE SPIRIT OF PIETY. ROMANS xiv. 19. Let us [therefore"] follow after the things which...peace, and things wherewith one may edify -another. TH E defign of the chriftian law is to exalt the nature of man, and make him fit for the fociety and... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1798 - 382 pages
...righteoufnefs, and peace, and joy, in the Holy " Ghoft. For he that in thefe things ferveth Chrift, " is acceptable to God, and approved of men. ** Let...things wherewith one may *' edify another. We that are ftrong ought to bear " the infirmities of the weak, and not to pleafe our" felves : for even Chrift... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1799 - 414 pages
...we muft fet ourfelves to be ufeful to men in this world, and live to be ufeful in it, Rom.xiv. i9. "Let us therefore follow after the things which make...peace, and things wherewith one may edify another." Chap. xv. 2. " Let every one of us pleafe his neighbour for7 his good to edification." We are members... | |
 | Barnaby (Uncle.) - 1799 - 374 pages
...or is offended, or is made weak; to take heed that they offend not one of these little ones ; to " follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another;" and to have their conversation in the world, honest and exemplary; that whereas the men of the world... | |
 | Thaddeus Mason Harris - 1801 - 356 pages
...10, 1798, AT THE CONSECRATION or M ONTGOMERT LOt)GE at FRANKLIN. ROMANS xiv. 19. "LET US,*THEREFORE, FOLLOW AFTER THE THINGS WHICH MAKE FOR PEACE, AND THINGS WHEREWITH ONE MAT EDIFT ANOTHER." 1 HE Apoftle, perceiving that fome diffenfions had arifen between the jewith and... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...Ghost. is For he that in these thing: scrvcth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men. 19 Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make...peace, and things wherewith one may edify another. 20 For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure ; but zV is evil for that man who... | |
 | Matthew Henry - 1803 - 244 pages
...ThefT. v. 21. m 2 Cur. ii. i I. much as in .us lies to live peaceably with all men, always following after the things which make for peace ', and things wherewith one may edify another z. Lord, make us able to love our enemies, to blefs them that curfe us, and to pray for them that defpitefully... | |
 | 1803 - 752 pages
...there is among you envying, and ftrife, and divifiuns, are ye not carnal, and walk as men*?" *' Let es, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edity another." " And mark them which caufe Vivifions and offences, contrary to the docirine which... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men. 19 Let us, therefore, follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1804 - 534 pages
...inculcated by the Apoftle, in his epiftle to the Romans; where he direfts the members of the church " to follow after the things which make for peace, and things wherewith one may edify another."* ** Now the GOD of patience and confolation," fays he, " grant you to be like-minded one towards another,... | |
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For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace,... 
