...son we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men. 11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own...are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing. 12 For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should...

...them to be industrious and diligent. " We " beseech you, brethren," says St. Paul to some of these, " that ye study to be quiet, and to do " your own business,...; that ye " may walk honestly toward them that are with" out, and that ye may have lack of nothing0." " If any provide not for his own, and specially...

...1 Cor. vii. 20. " Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." 1 Thess. iv. 11. "And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own...to work with your own hands, as we commanded you." It will be a very dangerous thing for lay-men, in either of these respects, to invade the office of...

...their own bread. We beseech you, brethren, saith he, that ye sludy to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you. Again, Let him that stole, steal no more, but let him rather labour with his. hands some good thing,...

...glory for ever and ever. Amen. SERMON XXL OF QUIETNESS, AND DOING OUR OWN BUSINESS. 1 THESS. iv. 11. And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, chrys. in . 2 Cor. Or. AS frequently between neighbouring states there 1'• do rise dissensions and...

...1. — Judge not 58 XXI. — Of quietness, and doing our own business. i THESSALONIANS iv. 11. — And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business. . ... 85 XXII. — Of quietness, and doing our own business. I THESSALONIANS iv. 11.— And that ye...

...discourse. SERMON XXI. OF QUIETNESS, AND DOING OUR OWN BUSINESS. I THESSALONIANS, CHAP. IV. — VERSE 11. And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business. As frequently between neighboring states there do rise dissensions and contests about the just limits...

...brethren which are in all Macedonia : but we beseech you brethren, that ye increase more and more ; and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own...are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing." And such passages abound throughout the Epistles, whose chief aim in the sacred canon is to furnish...

...full measure of industry on man's part. Hear the apostle's exhortation : " We beseech you, brethren, that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business,...ye may walk honestly toward them that are without ;" — that is, pay your debts. It is a source of purest enjoyment for a man to eat the produce of...

...the Thessalonians to obey, was contained in the former Epistle addressed to them, where it is said, " And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own...to work with your own hands, as we commanded you."* And in the quotation from the second chapter, it is clear, that by traditions, the apostle did not...