...we confidence toward God." (1 John iii. 21.) That man is doing well who can say, "I exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man." (Acts xxiv. 16.) NOTES. LUKE XXIII. 44—49. 44. — [About the sixth hour.] According to the Jewish...

...expressions are drawn chiefly from that evangelist; he could say also with Paul he had, all his life, striven to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man ; hence we must not expect to observe in him that line of expression used by those who have come out...

...endeavors to live by it; he has a hope of a glorious res* urrection, and he tries to live in such a way as to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. In this way make the scholars feel the beauty of a life so stainless here and so joyful hereafter....

...But how shall our faith be known? You answer, perhaps, "by our lives ;" by studying " in everything to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man." And most true it is that the daily life is the trial, so far as it goes, of the believer's sincerity....

...and joy to prove herself the faithful wife, the devoted mother, the sincere friend, and in all things to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man. The name Bunsen is German ; but we are proud to think that the woman who bore it was English, bred...

...what reverential regard to the divine will in all he said and did, what constant exercise of himself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man ! As a preacher, Dr. Davidson occupied a high place among distinguished men in the Scottish pulpit....

...own hearts (all that are candid men, all that are not utterly blinded with prejudice) that we 'labour to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man.' Brethren, I would to God that in this ye were even as we. But, indeed (with grief I speak it) ye are...

...this be secured, everything, in his judgment, is secured ; and in the case of all pastors who seek to have " a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man," and are not content with a negative morality any more than a negative theology, but pant after complete...

...trust. What a pattern the Lord Jesus presents to us in this, beloved, and as we exercise ourselves to have a .conscience void of offence toward God and toward man, the more shall we hear the voice of God, not as the voice .of thunder, but as the still small voice...

...and ecclesiastical sphere alike, will be subjected to trying tests. To keep our garments clean — to have a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man — ought to be our aim and endeavour as the followers of Christ ; and He has promised to make His...