| Samuel Horsley - 1811 - 460 páginas
...books confuted, — if we are to be " ready," that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared " to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us,"— a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical knowledge... | |
| Samuel Horsley - 1811 - 472 páginas
...books confuted, — if we are to be " ready," that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared " to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," — a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1812 - 438 páginas
...levelled to the meanest understanding; by which we may, as the apostle directs, be ready always to give ao answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. And thus I have done with my subject, which probabably I should not have chosen, if I had not been... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 462 páginas
...levelled to the meanest understanding ; by which we may, as the apostle directs, be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us, with meekness and fear. And thus I have done with my subject, which probably I should not have chosen, if I had not been invited... | |
| 1814 - 630 páginas
...a man knows nothing of, he can give no reason for. But St. Peter bids us " be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope (or faith) that is in us."* Which supposes our understanding it ourselves, and not an implicit faith... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 páginas
...witness in our favour ; to be able to look our worst enemy in the face undaunted, and to " give every one that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us ;" to walk through the wilderness of life, and the valley of death, and " fear no evil:" is not this... | |
| Samuel Horsley (bp. of St. Asaph.) - 1816 - 354 páginas
...confuted, — if we are to be " ready," that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared, " to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," — a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical... | |
| 1816 - 696 páginas
...books confuted; if we are to ' be ready,' that is, if we are to be -qualified and prepared, ' to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us •' a penetration in abstruse questions, a quickness in philosophical discussion, a critical knowledge... | |
| George Holden - 1819 - 538 páginas
...questioned by unbelievers, we add nothing to their faith, and we lessen, in vain, our own means ' of giving an answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us.' If the testimonies of the Old Testament had not been of great importance in every thing relative to... | |
| 1839 - 788 páginas
...than themselves. It is well, therefore, to he prepared for such assaults ; to he always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the faith as well as the hope that is in us. It is well, I say, and for several reasons ; — well for... | |
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