 | William Ford Vance - 1827 - 376 pages
...says the Apostle to Timothy, " endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life,...may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Now there are two things which suggest themselves to our minds, as necessarily following from these... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...life, what ye shall eat, neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 2 TIM. ii. 4 : No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ;...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. See on MAT. x. 9, 10. 5 And 'whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...others also. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life,...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman... | |
 | 1827 - 488 pages
...unnecessary burdens with them, which may encumber or retard their march, he adds, No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him for a soldier1. Upon this it is that all those canons, which have been made in so many ages of the... | |
 | Samuel Warren - 1827 - 1048 pages
...at the remotest distance from all temptation to a secular or mercenary temper. " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath called him to be a soldier." Independently of the moral and religious considerations which enforce... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...Tim. vi. 6—11. 17—19. Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life,...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. — 2 Tim. ii. 3, 4. In the last day, &c. men shall be lovers of their ownselves, &c. lovers of pleasures,... | |
 | 1828 - 828 pages
...and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles. IS For the which cause I also 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life,...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 5 And if a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. 6 The husbandman... | |
 | Abel Thornton - 1828 - 148 pages
...Bible from my pocket and opened it, and my eyes first fastened on these words : " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life,...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 2 Tim. ii. 4. These words struck with weight to my mind ; I halted where I was, and a short sermon... | |
 | Thomas Elrington (bp. of Ferns and Leighlin.) - 1828 - 384 pages
...innocently defer or postpone the performance of them to the claims of social life. " No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ;...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." Even the obligations of friendship, the tender ties of kindred, the bonds of parental and filial affection... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...therefore, (says he) endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entarigleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.' Not ' to follow' where the ' Lamb' leads, is, in effect, to doubt whether any instance of our love... | |
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No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 
