 | Thomas Boston - 1802 - 460 pagina’s
...to engage men to take care how they perform duties, fays, " Let us have grace, whereby we may ferve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear : For our God is a confuming fire," Heb. xii. 28. 29. I AM now to fhew, II. How the Lord teftifies his difpleafure agaiml... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pagina’s
...away from him, that speaketh from Heaven,'.' viz. The Saviour Jesus Christ. " Wherefore kt us serve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear : for our God is a consuming fire." But though the true minister courageously announces the most severe declarations of the word to the... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1806 - 508 pagina’s
...99. Wherefore, we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may ferve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a confuming fire, i Pit. 3. 8, 9, 10, n, it, Pfal. 34. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. VII w Gal. 3 ii. 7, the law... | |
 | Richard Steele - 1807 - 238 pagina’s
...worship, are affronts to the infinite glory of His nature. If we would serve GOD acceptably, it must be "with reverence and godly fear ; for our GOD is a consuming fire." Heb. xii. 28. His unsearchable goodness and excellence, claim our warmest affection, and highest delight ; to fix... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 584 pagina’s
...entering into his rest, any of " you should seem to come short of it." " Let us " have grace to serve God, with reverence and " godly fear; for our God is a consuming Fire." In proportion to the degree, in which we under* stand and believe these words, we shall be moved with... | |
 | John Owen - 1810 - 370 pagina’s
...take no pleasure in fools, liars, or workers of iniquity. And our apostle argues in the same manner: ' Let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably,...and godly fear: for our God is a consuming fire.' He lays his argument for the necessity of holiness in the worship of God, in the consideration of the... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - 1811 - 550 pagina’s
...therefore it must be in you ; and this you ought to labour for above all other things. Let us then have grace, •whereby -we may serve God acceptably...for our God is a consuming fire (Heb. xii. 28, 29.) to his impenitent and implacable enemies.* * Our author has evidently not finished his subject, and... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 560 pagina’s
...sloth, and engage them to the right performance of duties, tells what a one God is, Heb. xii. 28, 29. ' Let us have grace, whereby •we may serve God acceptably,...and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire.' 5. Because men mostly are unacquainted with communion and fellowship with God to be had in duties ;... | |
 | John Owen - 1812 - 486 pagina’s
...apostle, Heb. xii. 28, 29. " Let us have grace," be graciously prepared in our hearts and minds, " whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear ; for our God is a consuming lire." And this will not be answered by mere bodily postures of veneration. Hence there is a due preparation... | |
 | John Owen - 1813 - 644 pagina’s
...rever rential fear by nNT. This fear the apostle hath respect unto, Heb. xii. 28, 29. " Let us serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear ; for our God is a. consuming fire." The fear of dread and terror in God, requires the fear of reverence in us, in all that we have to do... | |
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Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear. For our God is a consuming fire. 
