 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...forbidden or condemned. When * James, iv. 1. the soldiers demanded of John the Baptist what they should do, he said unto them, " Do violence to no man, neither...accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages."* In which answer we do not find that, in order to prepare themselves for the reception of the kingdom... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 456 pages
...soldiers demanded of John the Baptist what they should do, he said unto them, • * James iv. 1. " Do violence to no man, neither accuse any " falsely, and be content with your wages*." In which answer we do not find that, in order to prepare themselves for the reception of the kingdom... | |
 | John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...directing the aruiy. But John was aware of their sinister views ; and he returns this pointed answer, " Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages." As though he had said, " Preserve proper discisecond to intimate that the very hour, in which he was... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...[See la letter a.] d Luke iii. 14. And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man,...accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages. Rom. xiii. 4. [See tetter a.] Matt. viii. 9. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under... | |
 | Alden Bradford - Bible - 1813 - 544 pages
...than that which is appointed you. 14 And the soldiers likewise demanded of him, saying, And what shall we do ? And he said unto them, Do violence to no man,...neither accuse any falsely ; and be content with your 15 wages.* And as the people were in expectation, and all were reasoning in their hearts of John, whether... | |
 | Johnson Grant - Great Britain - 1814 - 598 pages
...forerunner of Christ, " What shall we do ?" he said unto them, not, " Lay aside your weapons," but, " Do violence to no man ; neither accuse any falsely ; and be content with your wages." Luke, iii. 14. And Cornelius, the first fruits of the gentile world, " was a centurion of the Italian... | |
 | Paul Wright - Christian biography - 1814 - 428 pages
...with the utmost seriousness Si concern, inquired of him what they should do ; to which he replied, " Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages." The Baptist commenced his preaching six months before CHRIST wa« baptized, and vast multitudes resorted... | |
 | William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 544 pages
...shall we do ? said to them, exact no more than what is appointed you: and to the soldiers he said, do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages:" he warns them against rapine, and force, and injurious accusing others, of which sins publicans and... | |
 | Flavius Josephus - Jews - 1815 - 304 pages
...Josephus's direction to his Foliliers here, are much the same Hint John the Baptist gave, Luke, iii.li. " Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages.'' Whence Dr. Hudson eonfirmsthis conjecture, that Josepbtis, in some things, was, even now, a follower... | |
 | Jean Calvin, John Allen - Reformed Church - 1816 - 580 pages
...their arms, and entirely to renounce the military profession; whereas the advice given them was; ' Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely; and be content with your wages.' (w) An injunction to be content with their wages was certainly not a prohibition of the military life."... | |
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