 | Isaac Milner - 1820 - 462 pages
...Corinthians there is a " prize" to be obtained : " So run," says he, " that ye may obtain." And, again, " Every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest... | |
 | Charles Rollin - 1821 - 558 pages
...the Olympic games drew nigh, the Athletae who were to appear in them were kept to double exercise. temperate in all things: Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. *Tertullian uses the same thought to encourage the martyrs. He makes a comparison from what the hopes... | |
 | Brian Hill - 1822 - 454 pages
...where the Christian life is compared to a race. " Know ye not," says the Apostle, " that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize...every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate * Ler. xix. 2. t Is, riii. 20. in all things ; now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 598 pages
...ever he will be crowned"I. 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 '." 5. It is by a certain consequence the greatest impediment in the world to martyrdom : that being... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...masteries, yet is he not crowned except he strive lawfully. 1 Cor. ix. 24. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run that ye may obtain. Heb. xii. 1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - 1822 - 602 pages
...ever he will be crowned q. 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 incorruptibler." 5. It is by a certain consequence the greatest impediment in the world to martyrdom... | |
 | Morgan Williams - 1822 - 728 pages
...God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 1 Cor. ix. 24, Know ye not that they which run m a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Cor. xv. 2t. Since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 1 Cor. xv. 52.... | |
 | Prayer (Book of common) (U.S. protest. episc. ch.) - 1822 - 498 pages
...God, world without end. TTif Epútle. I Cor. ix. 24. Tf NOW ye not, that they which run in a race,run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And .'very man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. Now Üiey do it to obtain a corruptible... | |
 | 1822 - 872 pages
...Corinthians there is a' prize' to he obtained: ' So run,' «ays he, ' that ye may obtain.' And again, ' Every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate in all things. I therefore so run, not as uncertainly.... but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection;... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1823 - 478 pages
...Words very like those of St. Paul, 1 Cor. ix. 24. Know ye not that they which run in a race, run all ; and every man that striveth for the mastery, is temperate...obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 2. Another argument which may be used in proof The arguof a future state, so far as to amount to a... | |
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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. 
