 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1815 - 550 pages
...who could not be charged by the law, to be convicted by their own conscience; and therefore St Paul, in his justification before Felix, after he had denied...have always a conscience void of offence toward God and towards men," (Acts xxiv, 16.) his behaviour was so exact, that he did not only abstain from doing... | |
 | Richard Stack - 1815 - 328 pages
...against him. Having mentioned the hope of the resurrection, he adds, «and herein (on account of this) do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence ' toward God and toward men." In which admirable sentiment are at once expressed the active duties which exercise man, in his various... | |
 | David Collyer - 1815 - 368 pages
...was his chief sin, not an habitual practice of any vice. As to such he declared on the contrary f, Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. Gthly, That blessing the table, or saying grace, that is, the craving a blessing from... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pages
...as a distinct faculty of the mind, which he earnestly endeavored to keep always free from offence. "Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward meri." These words naturally lead us to consider, I. What conscience is: And, II. What we... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 524 pages
...holiness of life. Sometimes, indeed, it is likewise extended to men; as when the same apostle declares, " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." (*) . f -—-But the reason of this assertion is, that the fruits of a good conscience reach even to... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 580 pages
...Sometimes indeed it is likewise extended to men, as when Luke states Paul to have made this declaration, " I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men." (o) The apostle expressed himself in this manner, because the benefits proceeding from a good conscience... | |
 | Sarah Trimmer - 1817 - 456 pages
...themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward GOD and toward men. Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. Whereupon certain Jews from... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1818 - 632 pages
...of that mirth is heaviness. - - 247 SERMON XIII. On the Conscience void of Offence. ACTS, xxiv. 16. Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. - 269 SERMON XIV. On the Ascension of Christ. [Preached in the Evening after the Celebration of the... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1818 - 376 pages
...the triumph of the apostle over the fear of the Roman governor, and over the oratory of Tertullus ; " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and toward men." And this* constitutes the triumph and the security of every believer in... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1819 - 378 pages
...could not be charged by the law, to be convicted by their own conscience ; and therefore St. Paul, in his justification before Felix, after he had denied...behaviour was so exact, that he did not only abstain from clem IK any man wrong, but from giving any man a just occasion to be offended with him. It is a calamity... | |
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And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 
