 | John Bevans - 1810 - 134 pages
...one receivcth the prize? So run that ye may obtain. 25. And etfery man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things: Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. Phil. iii. 8. I count all tilings but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...tJiet, exercise, and hardship, that he may be the more capable of exerting himself with success. " Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, " but we an incorruptible." The object of their zealous pursuit, for the attainment of which they submit to sacrifices of personal... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a cprruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 404 pages
...which follow my text, he enforces another — And every jnan (saith he) who s trivet k for Mastery is TEMPERATE in all things : Now They do it to obtain a corruptible Crown, but IVe, an incorruptible. — For this purpose, adds he, I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection.... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things : now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. PARAPHRASE. man, I yet subject myself to every one, to the end lhat 20 I may make the more converts... | |
 | 1812 - 292 pages
...Christian race, represents it by those who strove for the mastery in the Grecian games, and says, " Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.'' And this crown he more particularly explains in the following words, speaking to those to whom he and... | |
 | Samuel Burder - 1812 - 442 pages
...man a year, and even worshipping him during that time, and then sacrificing him. No. 520. — ix. 25. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.] It is well known, that the crown in the Olympic games, sacred to Jupiter, was 4 of wild-olive ; in... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1813 - 480 pages
...if ever he will be crowned. And this argument the Apostle intimated : He that striveth for masteries is temperate in all things : now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible, (l Cor. ix. 25.) 5. It is by a certain consequence, the greatest impediment in the world to martyrdom... | |
 | William Jones - 1814 - 226 pages
...one receiveth the prize ; so not, that ye may obtain. And every one that striveth for tie mastery, is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly — but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection,... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin - 1814 - 640 pages
...he caft his eyes on the azd verfe of the gth chapter of the firft epiftle to the Corinthians — " I therefore fo run, not as uncertainly; " fo fight I, not as one that beateth the air." This paffage, the impreffion of which on his mind was ftrengthened by another that occurred to his... | |
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Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; 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... 
