 | David Brown, Charles Simeon - 1816 - 528 pages
...things loss that he might win Christ, and be found in him." " Do I speak to please men ?" saitli he, " if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ ; " he might have added, nor your servant : or, as he presently adds, " am I your enemy, because I... | |
 | 1817 - 514 pages
...apostle : — " Even as I please all men in all things," 1 Cor. \ 33." " Do I seek to please men 1 for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Ci ab i. 10. A Correspondent wishes to be informed, u hat is the meaning of Heb. xiii. 17 — whether... | |
 | 1817 - 368 pages
...liberality, as it is miscalled, read a lesson here — " Do I ask," exclaims he, " to please men ?" for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." We find, therefore, that, neither by experience, nor by the word of God, is warranted that equalization... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1818 - 520 pages
...reputation were, in his estimation, less than nothing. His language is, " Do I seek to please men ? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? What things were gain to me, those... | |
 | 1834 - 778 pages
...has for its text Galatians i. 10. " Do I now persuade men, or God ? or do I seek to please men ? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." In this discourse he considers, 1st, " The preaching which, is calculated to please nan." 2d, " The... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...1 Cm-, x. 33, St. Paul says, " I please all men in all things ;" and yet in Gal. i. 10, he says, " If I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ." Yours affectionately, Pimlico. WH WELSH. 1. The first of these expressions, frequently repeated in... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...every man have praise of God b. For do I now persuade men or* God ? or do I seek to please men ? For, if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ0. As we are allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, eve» so we speak, not as pleasing... | |
 | 1863 - 1198 pages
...Never, perhaps, was there a man of purer motives and loftier aims. " Do I seek to please men 1 for, if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." (Gal. i. 10.) He sought indeed to please men "for their good to edification ; " but beyond this he never went, —... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 466 pages
...received, let him be accursed. 1 0 For do I now persuade men, or God ? Or do I seek to please men ? For, if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. PARAPHRASE. 7 in Christ) unto another sort of Gospel ; Which is not owing to any thing else a, but... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 474 pages
...received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persnade men, or God ? Or do I seek to please men ? For, if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. l t PARAPHRASE. 7 in Christ) unto another sort of Gospel ; Which is not owing to any thing else", but... | |
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For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men ? for if I yet pleased men. I should not be the servant of Christ. 
