 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...ensures present support and everlasting felicity. — The apostle exhorts us to " be ready always to give an answer to every man, " that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in. "us.*" But, while almost all we meet avow » hope of being saved : there are very few, that are able to give... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...will be no mean argument to those who know )iow te* estimate its force, " that we should be always ready' to give an. answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hopelhat is in us." Infidelity, as might be expected, prevails most commonly in those countries, in... | |
 | George Campbell - Miracles - 1807 - 294 pages
...prudence they discover, in an affair of so great consequence. * We are even commanded to be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of our hope ; f in meekness to instruct them that oppose tnemselves ; % and earnestly to contend for the... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Sermons, English - 1810 - 498 pages
...present support and everlasting felicity . — The apostle exhorts us to " be ready always to give ao *' answer to every man, that asketh us a reason of the " hope that is in us."* But, while almost all we meet avow a hope of being saved: there are very few, that are able to give... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - Sermons, English - 1811 - 460 pages
...books confuted, — if we are to be " ready," that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared " to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us,"— a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Horsley - Sermons - 1811 - 472 pages
...books confuted, — if we are to be " ready," that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared " to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," — a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical... | |
 | James Fishback - Apologetics - 1813 - 326 pages
...they discover in an affair of so great consequence. Acts 17. 11. We are even commanded to be always ready to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason for our hope. 1 Pet. 3. 15. And earnestly to contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the... | |
 | Tract societies - 1814 - 630 pages
...a man knows nothing of, he can give no reason for. But St. Peter bids us " be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope (or faith) that is in us."* Which supposes our understanding it ourselves, and not an implicit faith... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...witness in our favour ; to be able to look our worst enemy in the face undaunted, and to " give every one that asketh us, a reason of the hope that is in us ;" to walk through the wilderness of life, and the valley of death, and " fear no evil:" is not this... | |
 | Samuel Horsley (bp. of St. Asaph.) - 1816 - 354 pages
...confuted, — if we are to be " ready," that is, if we are to be qualified and prepared, " to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us," — a penetration in abstruse questions — a quickness in philosophical discussion — a critical... | |
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Jews are to be repelled, and their misinterpretations of their own books confuted ; if we are to be ready, (that is) if we are to be qualified, and prepared, to give an answer to every man that asketh us a reason of the hope that is in us... 
