 | 1837 - 1068 ページ
...from individuals. Civil governments as such are of divine appointment, have authority from on high to be a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well. They arc the vicegerents of Jehovah, designed to cooperate with him in the administration of a part... | |
 | J. H. Elliott - 1838 - 28 ページ
...holding him up to ridicule, and by extenuating the conduct of the debtor. Governors, we are told, "should be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well." Take a case, but too common, and the cruelty of this doctrine must be manifest: — A widow with a... | |
 | James Maclean - 1838 - 308 ページ
...command or require any thing that the law of God forbids. The civil magistrate is ordained of him, to be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. The ministers of religion are entrusted with the administration of Christ's kingdom upon earth ; and... | |
 | John Elliot Palmer - 1838 - 252 ページ
...But can these ministers of God, as the apostle calls civil rulers, be what God has appointed them to be, a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well, if they are always to clear the guilty from punishment ? If we cannot fulfil the command to forgive... | |
 | John Wesley - 1839 - 810 ページ
...of one man. Bless the king ; O Lord, prolong his days and prosper his government ; make him always a " terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well :" and grant unto all magistrates and ministers of thy word, a continual supply of all the needful... | |
 | First Church (Dedham, Mass.) - 1840 - 548 ページ
...ends for which it is designed. Such rulers will be likely " to rule for God, and be faithful ; they will be a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well." It is in vain to expect these happy effects from the administrations of those, who are slaves to their... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - 1840 - 658 ページ
...yoke is broken, every slave set free ! Under the editorial care of NATHANIEL P. ROGERS, it is truly " a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well.'1 In the month of November last, the Board made a pledge of two thousand dollars to the Parent... | |
 | Daniel Tyerman - 1841 - 342 ページ
...people. Here you are a nursing father, and Hautia Vahine is a nursing mother to the church. Here you are a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well. In no other place could you do so much good, by authority, by precept, by persuasion, and by example,... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1841 - 496 ページ
...worthy of double honour, and deserves to be much valued and esteemed : as such certainly do, who are a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well. And farther, to show that they are a people that love order and good government, they carefully practise... | |
 | 1867 - 396 ページ
...still. So long as they refrain from tyranny, injustice, and unrighteousness ; so long as they are for " a terror to evil doers, and a praise to them that do well," it throws over them its overshadowing wings, and in the name of the Most High bids them prosper. Truly,... | |
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If you thus behave yourselves, and so become a terror to evil doers and a praise to them that do well... 
