 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 páginas
...imperfections in manner will be overlooked in the motive ; and if the deed be hindered, it will be accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he nath not. Yet there is much truth in the proverb, Where there is a will there is a way. Nothing often... | |
 | Richard Cattermole - 1834 - 380 páginas
...mites to the sacred treasury, was more liberal than those who threw into it richer gifts ' God accepts according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not.' A covetous man, though rich, will pretend the smallness of his estate to excuse and palliate his illiberal... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1835 - 498 páginas
...as freely as he did his blood ; remembering, " God loves a cheerful giver, and that it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." tp< not the gospel of thy free grace. We always delighted in pure doctrine, in " Salvation without... | |
 | Samuel James Allen - 1835 - 438 páginas
...be known, in whomsoever, and to whatsoever measure it hath brought forth fruit, it being accounted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not ; when " the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth." (Isa. xxv. 8.) And concerning... | |
 | 1835 - 434 páginas
...blessing to the lame : and we know who ham said, "Where there is first a willing mind, it is ar.cepted according to what a man hath. and not according to what he hath not." The third regards Shame. " We are ashamed to begin !" What ! ashamed of your glory 1 Ashamed of following... | |
 | Richard Salter Storrs - 1836 - 452 páginas
...infirmity, in regard to religious thoughts and affections, as well as in regard to duties, requires " according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." He replied, " I have experienced the truth of that more since I have been sick, than ever before."... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 páginas
...virtue of the deed depend on the willingness of the giver—if there be a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not. He exhorts them, therefore, to do according as they are disposed—above all, not grudgingly, nor of... | |
 | Home missionary society - 1839 - 762 páginas
...she had, even all her living." 2 Cor. xvii. 8, " For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not." 5. The disposition to give freely, is mentioned as an evidence of grace, and the want of that disposition... | |
 | Jeremy TAYLOR (Bishop of Down and Connor, and of Dromore.) - 1836 - 380 páginas
...can, and desire more and pursue more, it is accepted, as if we had done all ; for we are accepted " according to what a man hath and not according to what he hath not." We ought not to complain of the burden of the Divine commandments, unless we can neither endeavour... | |
 | William Wall - 1836 - 540 páginas
...it : because it is the heart that God regards ; and where that is ready, outward things are accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : especially if some act of God himself, as the sudden death of the infant, &c. do render it impossible... | |
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Heb. xi. 17, according to that in 2 Cor. viii. 12. Where there is a willing mind, it is accepted according to what a man hath, and not according to what he hath not : which is true of this church-duty, as well as of that of alms. 
