 | Thomas Brooks - 1806 - 270 pages
...great esteem with God; God sets the greatest value upon persons of a quiet spirit, 1 Pet. iii. 4. " But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which...corruptible ; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price." A quiet spirit is a spark of the divine nature:... | |
 | Ambrose Serle - 1806 - 502 pages
...holy life and conversation, or (as the apostle expresses it, alluding probably to this very tiling) the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit (becoming the bride of Christ) which is in the sight of God of great price.'t They are also... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 632 pages
...outward decency, let every one. in the fear of God. look to the hidden man of the heart, in that vhicn is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and...it in the sight of God of great price ; 1 Pet. iii. 4. And so 1 have done with the Rule or Canon of the Apostle. II. Come we now to the GROUNDS of it The... | |
 | Eliza Hunt - 1808 - 138 pages
...outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel : ' ' But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which...corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price."—! Peter iii. 2, 3, 4. Meek is her lowly mien... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1808 - 282 pages
.... outward adorning, of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which...corruptible; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in tlie sight of God of great price. For after this manner, in the old time, the holy... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1808 - 326 pages
...hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on of apparel: but let it be the hidden man of the heart, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which...is in the sight of God of great price, 1 Pet. iii. 3,4. Recollect, that the law of God is spiritual ; that there is an impurity of the mind, an adultery... | |
 | Thomas Ellwood - 1808 - 442 pages
...that delights in finery and in bravery of apparel, in which the true adorning doth not stand, but in the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even a meek and quiet spirit, 1 Pet. iii. 4. And the grace of God, which hath appeared to all, and which... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pages
...that outward adorning, of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel : But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which...corruptible ; even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is, in the sight ef God, of -great price. And so, St. Paul : 1 Tim. ii. 9, 10. / will......that... | |
 | 1809 - 674 pages
...that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel ; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which...corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet fpirit, which is in the fight of God of great price. For after this manner in the old time the holy... | |
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Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit,... 
