 | Daniel Sandford (bp. of Edinburgh.) - 1830 - 402 pages
...word could assure to us, and nothing but his mercy communicate; verse 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." It is impossible to express the satisfaction which such a sentence... | |
 | Henry Walter - Great Britain - 1830 - 648 pages
...to some clergy sent by Grostete, to examine into the affairs of that monastery, he called be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not *. With that willing mind Grostete laboured in his diocese; visiting... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 594 pages
...mites shall be valued above all the superfluities of sensual worldlings : " 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 p ." But God taketh not that for a willing mind, which only saith,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 574 pages
...harmless, exemplary life, is a continual, and a powerful sermon. And for giving, if there be first a " willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not;" 2 Cor. viii. 12. If you are unfeignedly willing to give, if you... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Theological anthropology - 1830 - 588 pages
...accepted for the deed; their sorrow for the want of will, for the will itself: " 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." Their groanings, when they cannot well word their desires, are... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 500 pages
...knowlege ; it being true of every moral action, what St. Paul affirms of alms-giving ; it shall be accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to what he hath not :—II. that immoral actions admit of no excuse, but will subject every man to the judgment... | |
 | Alfred Ollivant (bp. of Llandaff.) - Sermons, English - 1831 - 300 pages
...the poorest of Christ's flock, will be graciously received for his sake. " 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 V " Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these, my... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1832 - 330 pages
...uprightly, walketh surely: but a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. 7 If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 8 Let my heart, O Lord, be sound in thy statutes, that I be not... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Society of Friends - 1832 - 344 pages
...is equal. It is unquestionably true in great as well as in little things, that " if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not;" II Cor. viii. 12. The extent of faith required in man, in order... | |
 | Richard Hele - Lectionaries - 1832 - 402 pages
...which the Apostle hath laid down in another case, will hold equally true in this ; // there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not, 2 Cor. viii. 12. God is not a hard Master. He will not require much... | |
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accepted by a just and merciful God, who will judge mankind according to the degrees of instruction, and opportunities of improvement which have been respectively afforded them. " If there be a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath,... 
