 | John Havett - 1703 - 380 pągines
...Nothing therefore can be Concluded more Juft, Reafonable, and Neceflary, than this ; That we now Prefent our Bodies a living Sacrifice, Holy, Acceptable unto God ; which is our reafbnable Service, our Duty, and our Happinefs. SERMON 1 1 1 SERMON V. ECCLESJASTES xii. 14. For God... | |
 | Francis Gastrell (bp. of Chester) - 1717 - 352 pągines
...'fi.Mm t4..ir» * Rom, i4. 7, 8. ig«t. 6, i9. 20. ' Hcb. I2, i*. Rom. i. $, • Let at, alfa, . prefent our Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our rcafonahle Service. . b For the Love of Chrift conftraineth us, who d)cd for all ; that they, which... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1804 - 376 pągines
...'' Rom. i4. 7, 2. '. I Cor- 6. i9, 2o. ' Heb. I*. i8. Rom. i. 9. G 5 • ' Let f Let us alfo prefent our Bodies a living Sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable Service. s For the Love of Chrift conftraineth us, who died for all ; that they which live, fhould not henceforth... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1806 - 460 pągines
...habitual devotedness of heart and life, to the God of our life, and the length of our days ; let us present our " bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service : and be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that we may prove what is that good, and acceptable,... | |
 | Richard Mant - 1813 - 440 pągines
...father ? Do we strive to obey him with a faithful and unreserved and universal obedience, and so " present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service z ?" II. It is an easy and obvious transition from the first criterion, by which we examined the claim... | |
 | Jean Calvin, John Allen - 1816 - 580 pągines
...offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the Lord of hosts." (r) So Paul enjoins us to " present" our " bodies, a living sacrifice,...acceptable unto God, which is" our " reasonable service." (*) He has expressed himself with the strictest propriety, by adding that this is our reasonable service;... | |
 | John Shepherd - 1817 - 570 pągines
...the practice of the advice given by St. Paul *, who " beseeches us by the mercies of God, " that we present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, " acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable ser" vice." The dedication of ourselves to God, the Fathers considered as one grand end of this Sacrament... | |
 | Family prayers - 1824 - 128 pągines
...xxxviii. 19. ft Tim. iv. 10. $ Gen. xviii. 27. § Matt. xxiii. 37. || John xv. 4. May we henceforward present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable, unto God, which is our reasonable service w. Let us no longer be » Rom. xii. i. conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1827 - 484 pągines
...iii. 15.) And by all the tender mercies of God we are sweetly influenced through the Spirit of grace, to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. (Rom. xii. 1.) This part of that glorious work of redemption, which Christ performs in us by his Spirit,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 242 pągines
...the same principle, we too shall become immortal, shall " endure as seeing Him, who is invisible, and present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service."* In the life, and more particularly in the exit of the patriarch Enoch, life and immortality were more... | |
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Paul tells us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service... 
