 | Robert Leighton - Theology - 1822 - 576 pages
...eloquence, such as become not the majesty and gravity of God's word. If any man speak, says our apostle, let him speak as the oracles of God, 1 Pet. iv. 11. Light conceits, and flowers of rhetoric, wrong the word more than they can please the hearers ; the... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...heart ; who hath not lift up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully, SECTION IV. 1 Pet, iv. 11. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth : that God iu all things may... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...occupation of every talent consigned to our care, as stewards only of every gift with which we are blessed. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God. — How high a trust is this, to bear a message of mercy to God's people ! let all labour to be faithful... | |
 | John Arrowsmith - Puritans - 1822 - 410 pages
...as those of the New, to which Peter is like to have had a peculiar respect in that saying of his, " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God," J u< tiyia. ©«u. Especially if his meaning be to admonish such as speak in congregations, public... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 558 pages
...prayers are worse than deliberate and studied. Excellent, therefore, is the counsel of St. Peter. " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God:" not lightly then and inconsiderately. " If any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - Church history - 1823 - 524 pages
...Letter was here divided in the REPOSITORY.] SHurdai, feti. 3, isiz. LETTER XX. ON INTERNAL LIGHT. "Jf any man speak, let him speak as the ORACLES OF GOD.'' 1 Pet. iv. 11. FOR Amicus, both as a writer and as a man, the author of these Letters entertains an unfeigned esteem.... | |
 | Church of England - Book of Common Prayer - 1823 - 706 pages
...the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God : if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth ; that God in all things may... | |
 | George Withy - Hicksites - 1823 - 30 pages
...— First " no man taketh this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God, as was Aaron." " If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God." If any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth, that God in all things may be... | |
 | Thom Scott - Theology - 1823 - 670 pages
...singular to many who are called Christians, but it is the uniform language of the New Testament : and, " if any " man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God." New terms imperceptibly introduce new doctrines ; nor has any subtilty of Satan or his servants better... | |
 | John Locke - Bible - 1824 - 522 pages
...and contentions, and strivings about the law, for they are unprofitable and vain. — Titus iii. 9. If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God, &c. that God in all things may beglorified. — 1 Pet. iv. 1 1 . I will not be negligent to put you... | |
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If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth: that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to Whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 
