 KNOW ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize ? So run, that ye may obtain. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible....  A serious call to a devout and holy life - Page 170by William Law - 1733Full view - About this book
 | William Chilcot - 1734 - 150 pages
...obtain a corruptible Crown, but we an incorruptible. / therejorefo run not as uncertainly, fojight I not as one that beateth the Air : But I keep under my Body, andluring it into Subjefliott, Uft that by any means when- I have preached to others, I may not... | |
 | Richard Lucas - Happiness - 1735 - 486 pages
...Paul illuftrates. and explains by his own example, in the following Words : / therefore fo run, not as uncertainly ; fo fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my body, and bring it into Jubjeflion. The preference given to the cares aud appetites of the body, or... | |
 | Richard Lucas - Perfection - 1735 - 486 pages
...by 'his own example, in the following Words : 1 therefore fo ritn, "not as uncertainly ; Jo fight /, not as one that beateth the air: 'but 'I 'kee"p under my body, and bring it into futye&ion. The preference given to the cares aud appetites of the body, or... | |
 | James Blair - 1740 - 564 pages
...obtain a corruptible Crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore fo run, not as uncertainly: So fybt I, not as one that beateth the Air : But I keep under my Body, and hring it into Subjection: Left that by any means when I have preached to other t, I my/'elf... | |
 | 1765 - 412 pages
...have wrought but one hour, incorruptible. 1 therefore fo run, and thou haft made them equal not as uncertainly ; fo fight I, not as one that beateth the air •. but ] keep under my body, and bring .it into fubjeflion, left that by any means when I have preached to... | |
 | John Fletcher - Justification (Christian theology) - 1775 - 500 pages
...have SEPARATED between you and your God. If. Ixv. 12. — I fo run [for an incorruptible crown] not as uncertainly: fo fight I, not as one that, beateth the air : But I KEEP my body under, &c. LEST that by any means &c. I myfelf (hould be a CAST-AWAY, i, I know whom I have... | |
 | 1779 - 690 pages
...Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore fo run, not iis uncertainly •, fo fight I, not as one that beateth the air : but 1 keep under my body, and bring it into fubjeftion •, kit that by any means when 1 have preached... | |
 | William Penn - Society of Friends - 1782 - 506 pages
...they do it to obtain " a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I <e therefore fo run, as not uncertainly ; fo fight I, not " as one that beateth the air : but I keep under my " body, and bring it into fubjection ; left that by any " means, when 1 have preached to others, I... | |
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 310 pages
...the prize, which had always been an object of his hope; / 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... | |
 | Nathaniel John Hollingsworth - Sermons, English - 1801 - 354 pages
...applies the term to himfelf, who. had long been a believer. " I therefore (lays he) fo run, not as uncertainly, " fo fight I, not as one that beateth the air. But, *' I keep under my body, and bring k into fubjec" tion : left that, by any means, when I have ** preached to others, I... | |
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