 | James Stuart M. Anderson - 1829 - 776 pages
...please God, we cannot please the natural man. Therefore the apostle says to the Galatians, (i. 10,) " If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ ;" and in the 18 text he tells us, that the manner of our ministrations must be, " not as pleasing... | |
 | 1833 - 684 pages
...judgment." Again he says, — " Even so we preach, not as pleasing men, but God whotrieth our hearts." " If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Jesus Christ." There is a degree of sensitiveness in regard to our own reputation, which completely... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 548 pages
...that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment;" 1 Cor. iv.3. And " Do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ ;" Gal. i. 10. Good natures are loath to provoke others to displeasure ; and grace moveth us to please men for the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 544 pages
...that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment;" 1 Cor. iv.3. And " Do I seek to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ;" Gal. i. 10. Good natures are loath to provoke others to displeasure ; and grace moveth us to please men for the... | |
 | John Miller - 1830 - 544 pages
...that, we find him upon one occasion making the express challenge, " Do I seek to " please men ? for if I yet pleased men, I should " not be the servant of Jesus Christ1'." And let it not be said or thought that this is a distinction without a difference.... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - 1831 - 212 pages
...received, let him be accursed. For do I now persuade men, or God 7 or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man. For 1 neither... | |
 | Griffith Jones - 1832 - 436 pages
...salvation. And I think what the greatest of the apostles said, may be properly enough applied here, " If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Gal. i. 10. Perhaps the few late hints from you, may not render what I have written altogether impertinent. —... | |
 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 578 pages
...everlasting life. I!',, vi. 16— 22. Do I now persuade men or God ? or do I seek to please men ? For if 1 ence; and t l,3 Therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour... | |
 | American Doctrinal Tract Society - 1832 - 322 pages
...to be the rule of preaching ? Paul says, " Not as pleasing men, but God that trieth our hearts." " If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." The uncorrupted word is the means of man's salvation. " Sanctify them through thy truth, thy word is... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1832 - 908 pages
...with it, or contrary unto it. 10 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. Our apostle in these words discovers the great sincerity he used in preaching the pure and unmixed... | |
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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. 
