 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 preached to others, I myself should be a cast-away.  The Christian Observer - Page 2211815Full view - About this book
 | Harleian miscellany - 1810 - 596 pages
...that which is opposite to it, the true wisdom, in the viiith chapter. St. Paul said, 1 Cor. ix. 27. 'I 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 preached to... | |
 | William Oldys, John Malham - Great Britain - 1810 - 594 pages
...that which is opposite to it, the true wisdom, in the viiith chapter. St. Paul said, 1 Cor. ix. 27. 'I 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 preached to... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...language of an eminent ancient christian, who, when he had full assurance of salvation, said : " I nin, 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 preached... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 468 pages
...insecure, and even his salvation in danger, without this constant self-denial. " So run I, (says he), not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air." By which he plainly teaches us, that he who does not thus run, who does not thus deny himself daily,... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...their's is but a fading, transitory crown; >' • • r « V. . < •r*. :*•••..*•• TEXT. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly: so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that, by any 'means, when 1 have preached... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...he, "do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence towards God and towards men. 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 preached toothers,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 470 pages
...ought to be understood literally, when he says of himself, " I count not myself to have apprehended : 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 preached to... | |
 | Joseph Stevens Buckminster - Sermons, American - 1814 - 518 pages
...do it to obtain a COT> • Bp. Porteus, Vol. II. p. 286. rnptible 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 preached to... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...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 ; 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 preached to... | |
 | Christian life - 1815 - 310 pages
...and with a right judgment.) 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 preached to... | |
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