| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...receiveth the -prize? so run, that ye may obtain — / therefore so run, not as uncertainly : sought I, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection : lest that, by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 488 pages
...likewise, and afterwards its ascension into glory. This it was that enabled Paul to say, " I therefore run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air." Perseverance is not only the duty, but the privilege also of all who set themselves in good earnest... | |
| Richard Mant - Sermons, English - 1816 - 572 pages
...Chriftian race, he immediately fuhjoins, '" I therefore fo " run, not as uncertainly ; fo fight I, not as M one that beateth the air ; but I keep under " my body, and bring it into fubjeclion, left " that by any means, when I have preached *' to others, I myfelf fhould be... | |
| Wesleyan Methodists services - 1817 - 278 pages
...a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 1 therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so fight 1, not as one that beateth the air: but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.... | |
| John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1817 - 276 pages
...course with the great apostle of the Gentiles; I, sa) s he, "so run not as uncertainly, so fight I, uot as one that beateth the air. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest by any means when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away."... | |
| Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1818 - 362 pages
...Rest. St. Paul, indeed, in his own case, strongly asserts this necessity : for we find him saying : " I therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so fight I,...beateth the air ; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away."... | |
| 1818 - 424 pages
...it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncerliinly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, inyself should be a cast-away.... | |
| Episcopal Church - Anglican Communion - 1819 - 558 pages
...temperate in all things. i\Tow they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I,...beateth the air : But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.... | |
| William Law - Christian life - 1821 - 352 pages
...in a state of self-denial and mortification. He would have given this same account of himself. " I therefore so run, not as uncertainly, so fight I,...beateth the air ; but I keep •under my body and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when 1 have preached to others, 1 myself -licMiiil be a... | |
| Joseph Stevens Buckminster - 1821 - 448 pages
...temperate in all things. Now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we, an incorruptible. I, therefore, so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I,...beateth the air ; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that, by any means, when I have • Bp. Porteus, Vol. II. p. 286. 29 preached... | |
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