 | Dandeson Coates (d.1846), Rev. John Beecham - 1837 - 394 pages
...professors of Christianity, we have long been taught to pay all due respect to " the powers that be ; " to " pray for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty;" and we have have also long been... | |
 | Sir Robert Anderson - 1837 - 608 pages
...interpretation is strongly confirmed by that passage in the first epistle to Timothy, where St. Paul exhorts us to pray " for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty.1" 5 The peace and quiet of society... | |
 | 1842 - 268 pages
...King of kings and Lord of lords" " removeth kings and setteth up kings" at His sovereign pleasure, we are commanded to " pray for kings and for all that are in authority." Why ? " That we may lead a quiet and peaceablelife in all godliness and honesty, for... | |
 | John Hall - 1839 - 506 pages
...up arms against a legal government. On the contrary, it is the bounden duty of the children of God to pray for kings, and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty ; for this is good and acceptable... | |
 | 1813 - 1404 pages
...the nation much depends upon the character of those who rule in it, therefore the Bible teaches us to pray for Kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, in all godliness and honesty. In these prayers for the future,... | |
 | 1844 - 888 pages
...Christianity, that " the powers that be are ordained of God ; " and hence the apostle's exhortation " to pray for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead quiet and peaceable lives in godliness and honesty." And yet I hesitate not to say, that for... | |
 | William Whewell - 1845 - 442 pages
...report ; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (1 Tim. ii., 2), Pray for kings, and for all that are in authority : that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty («/imiritri). CHAPTER VII. CHRISTIAN... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pages
...difficulty. It cannot be administered without much labour and care. And this is one reason among others why we are commanded " to pray for kings, and for all that are in authority." Who can need our prayers so much ? What a charge devolves upon a parent when Providence... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1846 - 610 pages
...searcheth them. These will be judged out of their own mouth from the Bible which is on their lips. Let us " pray for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty ;" but wonder not if some who feel... | |
 | 1846 - 598 pages
...searcheth them. These will be judged out of their own mouth from the Bible which is on their lips. Let us " pray for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty ;" but wonder not if some who feel... | |
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Paul has told us ; requiring that we should ' pray for kings, and for all that are in authority ; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty : 
