...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...