...between two brethren, said, " Who made me a judge or a divider?" fit. Paul, speaking of churchmen, says, "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life ;" which was understood by St. Cyprian, as a perpetual rule against the secular employments of the...

...name, If, when he from earth shall sever, These he would ascribe for ever ? A CHRISTIAN'S DEVOTEDNESS. "No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs...please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." —2 Timothy, ii. 4. HE who would win a warrior's fame, Must shun, with ever watchful aim, Entangling things...

...not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables ;" the second was 3 Tim. ii. 4, " exalted above measure through the abnndanca of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn These passages, produced considerable hesitation and much perplexity. Again, there were other Scriptures...

...This is not the house !" In order to redeem time, he must refuse to engage in secular affairs : JVo man, that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. He must watch, too, against a dozing away of time : the clock-weight goes down slowly, yet it draws...

...the Romans prohibited marriage to their soldiery. To this the apostle refers, 2 Tim. ii. 4, " No one that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." 10. The return of the conquering army has ever been an occasion of the most enthusiastic rejoicing....

...Joshua with the same circumstances. THE QUESTIONS. Rev. xii. 7. There was war in heaven. 2 Tim. ii. 3. Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier...entangleth himself with the affairs of this life. Eph. vi. 13. Take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day....

...called to " endure hardship as good soldiers of Jesus Christ." Now "no man that warreth," we read, " entangleth himself with the affairs of this life,...may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier." One, who is about to engage in labours, conflicts, and dangers, under some approved and favourite leader,...

...that spirit which we desire ? We read * that a good soldier of Jesus Christ entangleth himself not with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier ; or, as Guyse explains it, ' he must not follow any civil calling, unprofitable reading, or unnecessary...

...Endure hardness an a good soldier of Jesus Christ, [the same mere man.] No man that warreth, entanglcth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him that hath chosen him to be a soldier.' See that thou then (he might have added, as indeed is implied)...

...their profession, but rather considers it as furnishing full employment for those who engaged in it : " No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, life, that he may please "him who hath chosen him to be a soldier (s);" and by this example of soldiers...