 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pàgines
...infirmity, making conscience of words and action, as Paul did, Acts xxiv. 16. ' Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.' What others count light, they will count great : even these as burdens to them, which they groan under,... | |
 | 1813 - 248 pàgines
...scene of revelry, is not always the house of real joy ! ON CONSCIENCE. ** Herein do I exercise myself, to have always " a conscience void of offence toward God " and toward men *." _LtIE languid approbation of .virtue, of a mere concurrence in the forms of reJigiori, will never... | |
 | John Colquhoun - 1814 - 446 pàgines
...exercise of grace and performance of duty. Were the believer to be as diligent, in " exercising himself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men *," as in trying his evidences ; he would advance more speedily than he does, in the assurance of sense.... | |
 | John Stanford - 1814 - 450 pàgines
...description have we of this labor, from the conduct and the pen of St. Paul. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men. Acts, xxiv, 16. Happy the man who, by the grace of his God, is thus employed amidst the conflicting... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1869 - 636 pàgines
...examination of our own souls, into our motives, purposes, and ways of life, to see whether or not we "have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men " (Acts xxiv. 1 6). This is the witness of the conscience. When the accusers of the woman taken in... | |
 | Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 pàgines
...mentioned the hope of the resurrection, he adds, «and herein (on account of this) do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence ' toward God and toward men." In which admirable sentiment are at once expressed the active duties which exercise man, in his various... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pàgines
...that her God reigneth. SERMON VIII. ON CONSCIENCE. ACTS xxiv, 16. And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. / IT seems rather strange, that those, who have critically surveyed the powers and operations of their... | |
 | Jean Calvin, John Allen - 1816 - 580 pàgines
...likewise extended to men, as when Luke states Paul to have made this declaration, " I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." (o) The apostle expressed himself in this manner, because the benefits proceeding from a good conscience... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 456 pàgines
...there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward GOD and toward men. Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. Whereupon certain Jews from... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pàgines
...not a conscientious respect to it in all things. They do not, with St. Paul, ' exercise themselves, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God and toward men.' Those were his ascetics, (do-Ki5) ; he exhausted himself in striving against what might defile the... | |
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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 
