 | Thomas Halyburton - Salvation - 1801 - 382 pages
...and where this is, many imperfections will not hinder acceptance, 2 Cor. viii. it. For if there be a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. But that we may further clear this truth, we fliall, L Shew what it is to ferve the Lord. IL Shew what... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 1 2 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 13 For / mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened ; 14 But by an equality, that now at this... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1805 - 538 pages
...Chriftians to contribute to the neceffities of their indigent brethren, fays, '' If there be firft a willing mind, it is accepted, according to that...man hath, and not according to that he hath not." The reafon of the thing is ' precifely the fame refpecting every other duty or command of God. He requires... | |
 | Herman Witsius - Covenant theology - 1803 - 486 pages
...what is not done is forgiven. The Apoftle fpeaks of this 2 Cor. viii. 12. " For if there b'e firft a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." Thus " we are complete in Chrift," Col. ,iil 10. his moll perfect righteoufnefs covering all oitr defects.... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have. 12 For if there be first a willing; mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 13 For / mean not that other men be eased, and you burdened : 14 But by an equality, that now at this... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1804 - 376 pages
...uprightly, walketh furely ; but a double-minded Man is unftable in all his Ways. 1 If there be firft a willing Mind, it is accepted according to that a Man hath, and not according to that he hath not. * Let my Heart, O Lord, be found in thy Statutes, that I be not afhamed : For the Upright fhall dwell... | |
 | William Gilpin - Homiletical illustrations - 1804 - 466 pages
...through this great confolarion, let us continually go on .our way rejoicing* 340 VIII. If there be firft a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. — 2 Corinthians, viii. i2. or. PAUL, in the chapter, from which the text is taken, had been exhorting... | |
 | Jacob Rush - Conduct of life - 1804 - 198 pages
...morals, in •which the scriptures agree, that natural inability always destroys moral 'obligation. " It is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not."' There were obstacles in the way of the salvation of men which they have not natural ability to remove... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1806 - 338 pages
...readinefs to will, fo there may be a performance alfo out of that which you have : For if there be firft a. willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. To duty feldom I adhere, r Yet to the end I perievere./ I die and rot beneath the clod, s Yet live... | |
 | Asa McFarland - Calvinism - 1806 - 288 pages
...to obey God's commands,- is obedience : For if there -be -first a willing mind, it is ao • cepted according to that a man hath, :and not according to that -he hath not.'. If' men be prevented by any natural impediment, or inability, from their duty, it will not be imputed... | |
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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 
