... 6. The Apostle's direction, therefore, you may be sure, applies to all Christians in every age and country. It is needful for all of them to be able to give a reason of the hope that is in them. The Saturday Magazine - Seite 201837Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Watkins - 1809 - 454 Seiten
...it in their power to " confound the sophistry of every gainsayer," they will be at all times " ready to give a reason of the hope that is in them ;" and to prove demonstratively that the character of Jesus Christ, the doctrines he taught, and the precepts... | |
| Philip Melvill - 1812 - 388 Seiten
...do follow them." ' Extract from a Paper entitled " My firm Belief." Penryn, Sep. 3, 1807. I DESIRE to be able to give a reason of the hope that is in me. I look upon myself as a vile sinner, and have no hope, but that which results from an application... | |
| Alexander Proudfit - 1815 - 420 Seiten
...and it* open enemies are confirmed in their prejudices. But when the professed disciples of Jesus are able " to give a reason of the hope that is in them with meekness and fear ;" when they appear unshaken in their reliance on his merits for pardon, and... | |
| John Kenrick - 1817 - 650 Seiten
...the only fair criterion. In what other religious community are greater pains taken to make the young able to give a reason of the hope that is in them ? While in other societies they learn to lisp and repeat by rote mysterious dogmas respecting the Godhead,... | |
| REV. H. C. O'DONNOGHUE, A.M. - 1818 - 342 Seiten
...its faith, and attached to its discipline, as to be able, with Christian meekness and holy boldness, to give a reason of the hope that is in them, and to resist those who would seduce them from their attachment and allegiance to the Church of their country.... | |
| 1834 - 778 Seiten
...IN FASHIONABLE PUMP-ROOMS? No, indeed! They are sober-minded followers of Christ, who are ever ready to " give a reason of the hope that is in them," and " rightly to divide the word of truth ;" but they have no tricks of display, no arts of rhetoric, no... | |
| Christopher Benson - 1819 - 362 Seiten
...believer and sound Christian — to the Christian who has been duly instructed from his earliest youth to be able to give a reason of the hope that is in him, the great uncertainty which still prevails respecting the true time of our Saviour's birth... | |
| John Evans - 1822 - 350 Seiten
...called the Christian world, in the present day, it becomes more necessary than ever for all that would be able to give a reason of the hope that is in them, with meekness and fear, uprightly and impartially to search the scriptures, and judge for themselves.... | |
| 1830 - 492 Seiten
...for me, washed white in the blood of the Lamb." With the feelings of one who knew how necessary it is to be " able to give a reason of the hope that is in us," her mother said, " How do you know it, my dear ?" Her answer was, in accordance with the experience... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 494 Seiten
...God, gives them a peculiar knowledge of God and of divine truths and objects ; then they may always be able to give a reason of the hope that is in them. Though they are not able to exhibit all the external evidences in favour of the divinity of the gospel... | |
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