 | Robert Balfour - 1819 - 228 страници
...A similar decision is given, 2 Cor. viii. 12. where the apostle declares, that, " if there be first a willing mind, it " is accepted according to that a man hath, and " not according to that he hath hot." This too is the plain import of the direction in his first epistle to the Corinthians, chap.... | |
 | Thomas Brooks - 1820 - 264 страници
...thou canst, and thou 105 shah find acceptance, with- God. , 2 Cor. viii .12. For if there be first a willing: mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. The publican's prayer had not much rhetoric or eloquence in it, " God be merciful to me a sinner,"... | |
 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 страници
...soever, it ventures to pay, in sure confidence that they will be grateful to that Being, which accepteth according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not, 2 Cor. viii. 12. Thus does external adoration become a point of natural homage, due to the supreme... | |
 | 1821 - 494 страници
...marks the smallest offering cast into his treasury, and in whose word it js written, 'If there he first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.' The wnrk is not done, nor will it soon he finished. It will not he complete •even when the hundreds... | |
 | 1821 - 506 страници
...always correspond with, the measure of obligation. The scriptures assure us, that, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. God requires of men that they should knots him ; and he has endowed them with an understanding capable... | |
 | 1821 - 740 страници
...the smallest offering cast into his treasury, and in whose word it is written, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath uot." The work is not done, nor will it soon be finished. It will not be complete even when the hundreds... | |
 | Chappell, Paul - 1995 - 332 страници
...willing heart. The offering should come from within the heart of every believer. "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not" (II CorinA Christian thians 8:12). In the New Testa, / .//. ment age, Christians are to must be willmg... | |
 | David Daniell - 1995 - 488 страници
...a readiness to will, even so ye may perform the deed, of that which ye have. For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. It is not my mind that others be set at ease, and ye brought into cumbrance: C but that there be egalness... | |
 | American Bible Society - 1838 - 1038 страници
...the smallest offering cast into his treasury, and in whose word it is written, " If there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not." The work is not done, nor will it soon be finished. It will not be complete even when the hundreds... | |
 | Oliver O'Donovan, Joan Lockwood O'Donovan - 1999 - 868 страници
...the view of the Apostle on this subject, when in 2 Corinthians 8:12 he said: "For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath" — "accepted," that is, meritorious. [15] Moreover, if this choice to be lacking in temporal goods... | |
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For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not. 
