| Edward Bather - 1876 - 262 Seiten
...hold all zealous people in equal honour. We must be ready always, " with meekness and fear, to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in ourselves ;"* and we must be ready also to " contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the... | |
| Edward Bather - 1876 - 258 Seiten
...hold all zealous people in equal honour. We must be ready always, "with meekness and fear, to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in ourselves ;"* and we must be ready also to "contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the... | |
| 1877 - 588 Seiten
...enjoining us to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good ; 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 fear ; to present unto God a reasonable service ; and to believe in Christ as the reasonable Word of God.... | |
| Church congress - 1877 - 430 Seiten
...phrases and expressions we have received and are accustomed to use, so that we may with readiness give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. We shall not indulge in the weak, curt, and evasive reply, " The Bible says so," " The Church says... | |
| 1877 - 434 Seiten
...phrases and expressions we have received and are accustomed to use, so that we may with readiness give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us. We shall not indulge in the weak, curt, and evasive reply, " The Bible says so," " The Church says... | |
| John Bunyan - 1877 - 324 Seiten
...Then said (6) The Mountain of Eiror. — Vv'e are enjoined in Scripture to "be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us;" but we must beware of attempting to push our investigations beyond the limits of revelation. "It is... | |
| 1877 - 794 Seiten
...lay our account with being questioned, and we should be ready " to give to every one that asketh a reason of the hope that is in us with meekness and fear." We must not disguise it from ourselves that there are difficulties in the way of believing the gospel,... | |
| Henry Calverley Calverley - 1878 - 72 Seiten
...would offer to God a " reasonable service " (Rom. xiii. 1), and if we would "be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us" (1. Pet. iii. 15). I am sure that one great reason why religion doesn't lay hold of us and work in... | |
| Elizabeth Hely Walshe, George Eliel Sargent - 1880 - 414 Seiten
...the glory of His Father, with the holy angels." And St. Peter commands us 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 fear. I therefore require of you, at this present time, an account of your faith." " Upon these words," says... | |
| John Macbeth - 1880 - 122 Seiten
...Faith really is — so that we may not only be satisfied ourselves,but also "be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us." (1 Peter iii. 15.) It is only by earnestly and prayerfully studying " the Holy Scriptures, which are... | |
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