 | William Ford Vance - Christian life - 1827 - 376 pages
...Timothy, " endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, no man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please Him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Now there are two things which suggest themselves to our minds, as necessarily following from these... | |
 | 1827 - 524 pages
...therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 2 TIM. ii. 4 : No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. See on MAT. x. 9, 10. 5 And 'whosoever will not receive you, when ye go out of that city, shake off... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for masteries yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. The husbandman that laboureth, must be first partaker of the fruits. Consider what I say ; and the... | |
 | Clergy - 1827 - 488 pages
...them, which may encumber or retard their march, he adds, No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him for a soldier1. Upon this it is that all those canons, which have been made in so many ages of the... | |
 | Henry Belfrage - Older people - 1827 - 710 pages
...of Heaven respecting it. In this epistle he remarks, in manifest allusion to those games, " If a man strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully."* He had kept the appointed path, neither turning to the right hand nor to the left. This had been the... | |
 | Samuel Warren - Methodism - 1827 - 1048 pages
...from all temptation to a secular or mercenary temper. " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath called him to be a soldier." Independently of the moral and religious considerations which enforce... | |
 | Abel Thornton - Baptists - 1828 - 148 pages
...opened it, and my eyes first fastened on these words : " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 2 Tim. ii. 4. These words struck with weight to my mind ; I halted where I was, and a short sermon... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...17—19. Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. — 2 Tim. ii. 3, 4. In the last day, &c. men shall be lovers of their ownselves, &c. lovers of pleasures,... | |
 | Thomas Elrington (bp. of Ferns and Leighlin.) - 1828 - 384 pages
...the performance of them to the claims of social life. " No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." Even the obligations of friendship, the tender ties of kindred, the bonds of parental and filial affection... | |
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No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. 
