 | Henry Alford - Bible - 1808 - 968 pages
...reader to its consideration. 19. But surely such a course is hardly that of those who are exhorted to earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) u If it has pleased God, in the course of His providential care of His word, that certain portions of... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...know and understand it, Eph. v. 8, 17, Ye were sometimes darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord. Be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Col. i. 9, We cease not to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled. with the knowledge... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...the will of a dear and faithful friend, should much more rest in the will of God : do your duty, and be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is for you to do, and then distract not your minds with distrustful fears about his will that is infinitely... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Confirmation - 1825 - 394 pages
...should, therefore, when we make use of this petition, be our desire, that we all, in our degree, may " be not " unwise, but understanding what the will of the " Lord is ;"8 " and may abound more and more, " in knowledge and all judgment.''9 They do every thing without... | |
 | Thomas Secker - Sermons, English - 1825 - 532 pages
...should therefore, when we make use of this petition, be our desire, that we also, in our degree, may be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is J ; and may abound more and more, in knowledge and all judgement ยง. They do every thing, without exception,... | |
 | Thomas Secker (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1827 - 256 pages
...should therefore, when we make use of this petition, be our desire that we also, in our degree, may " be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is ; " and that we u may abound more and more in knowledge and in all judgment." Can you enumerate any... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 576 pages
...the will of a dear and faithful friend, should much more rest in the will of God. Do your duty, and be "not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is" for you to do, (Ephes. v. 17,) and then distract not your minds with distrustful fears about his will... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 578 pages
...the will of a dear and faithful friend, should much more rest in the will of God. Do your duty, and be " not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is" for you to do, (Ephes. v. 17,) and then distract not your minds with distrustful fears about his will... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - Bible - 1832 - 612 pages
...done in obedience to him. Of the knowledge of the Divine will the Apostle thus speaks in Ephes. v. 17, Be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Of obedience to it, the Saviour, in Matt. vii. 21, says, Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Christian life - 1841 - 588 pages
...and spiritual understanding; or, as he expresses the same thing to the Ephesians, that they should be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. He prays for the Colossians that they should not be spiritually foolish, but that they should be spiritually... | |
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Ephesians, that they should be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 
