 | 1777 - 750 pages
...this as a matter rather of conjecture than certainty ; but obferve, that if your caufe is jufr, — if your principles are pure, — and if your conduct...juft, you may look with confidence to the Lord, and intreat him to plead it as his own. You are all my witncfles, that this is the firlr. time of my introducing... | |
 | John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - 1798 - 420 pages
...this as a matter rather of conjecture than certainty ; but obferve, that if your caufe is juft, — if your principles are pure, — and if your conduct...juft— you may look with confidence to the Lord, and intreat him to plead it as his own. You are all my witnefles, that this is the firft time of my introducing... | |
 | John Witherspoon, John Rodgers - 1802 - 604 pages
...conjecture than certainty, but obferve, that if your caufe is juft,—if your principles are pure,—and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of oppofmg hofis. If your caufe is juft—you may look with confidence to the Lord and intreat him to... | |
 | David Walker Woods - 1906 - 314 pages
...dreadful, shall finally promote the glory of God." " If your cause is just, if your principles are pure, if your conduct is prudent you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts. If your cause is just you may look with confidence to the Lord and entreat Him to plead... | |
 | Everett H. Emerson - 1977 - 328 pages
...promote his glory. In this widely read sermon, Witherspoon proclaims, "If your cause is just, — if your principles are pure, — and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts." He notes that this is the first time he has introduced any political subject into... | |
 | L. Gordon Tait - 2001 - 292 pages
...patriots can be assured of a happy outcome: "If your cause is just,—if your principles are pure,—and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts." Each of these required trenchant comment. It was at this critical point in the sermon... | |
 | Jerry Hillenburg - 2004 - 58 pages
...against the dangerous error of trusting in, or boasting of, an arm of flesh... If your case is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing host. (John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence) Homosexual marriage... | |
 | Don Hawkinson - 2005 - 470 pages
...the dangerous error of trusting in, or boasting of, an arm of the flesh. If your cause is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts," 14 Witherspoon concluded. On the charge that Christianity is harmful to a society,... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - 2007 - 1236 pages
...leave this as a matter rather of conjecture than certainty, but observe, that if your cause is just, if capable (notwithstanding their other Persuasions and Practices in Point of Conscience and Re opposing hosts. If your cause is just— you may look with confidence to the Lord and intreat him to... | |
 | John Fea - 2008 - 288 pages
...secular Whig principles, that Providence was on the side of the colonies: "If your case is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts. If your case is just — you may look with confidence to the Lord and intreat him to... | |
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I leave this as a matter rather of conjecture than certainty, but observe, that if your cause is just, — if your principles are pure, — and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts. 