...youth, such seeds and principles of piety and virtue, as are likely to take soonest and deepest root. Use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. He "dressed several exhortations to them suitably to their circumstances. « IV. Comparative terminations...

...drinkers, provided the latter kept within the bounds of moderation, and followed the sports of the field. " Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake," said Paul the Apostle, in his tender regard for his dear friend Timothyt. As we are now, however, speaking...

...suddenly on no man, neither be partaker of other men's sins: keep thyself pure. Drink no longer water, hut that your Master also is in heaven ; neither is there respect of per Some nujn'g sins are open beforehand, going before to judgment; and some men they follow after." The...

...subject of a direct communication from God. As, for instance, when Paul says to his son Timothy.—" Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities ;" or as elsewhere, when the same apostle says— "The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, when...

...many wonders and signs, he can only, with regard even to him, sympathise, and nray, and admonish — "Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities." But here we see the importance of health. Of all natural blessings it is the most personal, and the...

...muñere fovit Reliquias, mundi solatus vite rulnam !" Fonierti I'nril. Riisticuwi. lib. xl. " Driak no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities." — St. faul't Fir«« Ef. Tim. v. -22. " No species of beverage has obtained so respectable an antiquity,...

...strong drink. — Wine and strong drink were allowed as medicine. The inspired Paul said to Timothy, " use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities. " Inspiration also commands us to " give strong drink to him that is ready to perish." Wine, mixed...

...words been understood. Lay hands suddenly on no man : keep thyself pure. 23 Drink no longer water, hut use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities. Note here, 1. There is a lawful use of wine to support nature, not to clog it ; to cure infirmities,...

...it beneath him to watch over the health of Timothy ; and to prescribe for him like a physician ; ' Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities.' S^udy therefore your husband's constitutional liableness to injury ; not to render him soft, and effeminate,...

...required something more generous, and restorative, and strengthening : and therefore, says his friepd, " Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine oiten infirmities." As there was nothing in Paul enthusiastical, or leading him to the neglect of means...