Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. The Christian Observer - Page 231812Full view - About this book
| George Burder - 1818 - 332 pages
..." Having," says he, " your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak evil of you, as evil doers, they may, by your good works which...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." IMPROVEMENT. • • Two great lessons may be learned from this discourse—To KNOW CHRIST—and To... | |
| 1818 - 424 pages
...having your conversation honest among the Gentiles ; that whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake; whether it be to the king, as supreme... | |
| John Radford - 1819 - 68 pages
...Let your conversation," says the apostle St. Peter, "be honest among the Gentiles ; that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your...shall behold glorify God in the day of visitation." Indeed the superiority of our religion should be proved by the superiority of our morals ; and in asserting... | |
| 1839 - 788 pages
..." That by well-doing you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men," — " That, whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may, by your...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation." In private life, endeavour, by God's blessing, to prove yourselves bright and consistent exemplars... | |
| Episcopal Church - Anglican Communion - 1819 - 558 pages
...having your conversation honest among the Gentiles ; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers they may by your good works; which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake ; whether it be to the king, as supreme... | |
| Thomas Zouch, Francis Wrangham - Theology - 1820 - 558 pages
...Peter to his new converts : Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas 'they speak against you as evil doers, they may, by your...shall behold, glorify 'God in the day of visitation*. Thus are we encouraged to recommend ourselves by the unsullied > integrity of our moral conduct : not... | |
| Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 pages
...hardened and seared unbelievers), that whereas they speak against us as evil-doers, they may by our good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. The primitive Christians (as you have heard) appealed freely from their doctrines to their lives, in... | |
| Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1821 - 574 pages
...-..' ' • ' . ' fi Ve*: 11. Having your conversation honest among the ' Gfritiles ; that whereas they speak against you as evil ''doers, they may, by your...shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. THESE two things that a natural man makes least account of, are of all things in the highest regard... | |
| Joseph Lister - Bradford (England) - 1821 - 72 pages
...at Halifax, I was hearing qne Mr. Briacoe, preach from that scripture in 1PET.II, 12. last clause; "They may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of Visitation." Having laid down this Doctrine, " that all persons that live under the gospel have a day of visitation;"'... | |
| Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...having your conversation honest among the Gentiles ; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake, whether it be to the king, as supreme... | |
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