...unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device. 5 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. 6 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified....

...became, from that lime, a serrous Christian. Chap, xxiv, ver. 16. — And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men. Two monks having come one day to William Rufus, king of England, to buy an Abhot's place, who outreached...

...out of all question. He could not only say, when he was a Christian, " Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men," Acts xxiv. 16 : but even concerning the time when he was a Pharisee: " Men and brethren, I have lived...

...i. 3, &c. SERMON VI. A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENCE. ACTS xxiv. 16. And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men. THESE words form a part of St. Paul's memorable defence of himself against the accusation of his enemies...

...matters, or in things too high for me.' Psalm cxxxi. 1. And the apostle said, ' I do exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men.' Acts. xxiv. 16. And the apostle writes to Timothy, to exercise himself unto godliness, for bodily exercise...

...people; and he profited in his studies above the greater part of his countrymen. He exercised himself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men ; and as touching the righteousness of the Jewish law, he was blameless, both in his own eyes, and...

...is vain, and sinful, and corrupt, as far, and as soon as you discover it to be so. You will herein exercise yourselves, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. "Ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus," says the Apostle. The merits...

...sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of 6 . And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men 7. O that my ways were directed to keep Thy statutes; then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect...

...there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. And herein do 1 exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men." (Acts xxiv. 15, 16.) This is the proper work of a true belief, and a full persuasion of a resurrection...

...supposed to require some signal judgment. It is of unspeakahle moment, amidst afflictions and dangers, " to have always a conscience void of offence, toward God, and toward men." "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence towards God."* The method proposed for...