| Edward Burton - 1829 - 654 pages
...from meats. He explains in his reply the whole doctrine of Christian liberty : but from his saying, If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend, (1 Cor. viii. 13.) it is plain that such abstinence was... | |
| 1829 - 396 pages
...essential to your happiness, and much less to your spiritual improvement ? Can you say with Paul, " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth ?" " Who is weak and I am not weak ? Who is offended and I burn not ?" Do you consider how... | |
| William Jay - 1829 - 538 pages
...all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved." If "meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." And how noble does he here look! And how below his principles... | |
| James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...so against the brethren, 12 and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if 13 meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend. „ , AM I not an Apostle ? am I not free ? have I not... | |
| Charles James Blomfield - 1830 - 48 pages
...ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend** I would not go so far as to assert, that hospitality is... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1830 - 588 pages
...their liberty in indifferent things, than, by the uncharitable use of it, destroy others : " Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." 5. In their use of lawful comforts there is a great change.... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1830 - 410 pages
...indifferent things, than by the uncharitable use of it, destroy others, 1 Cor. viii. 13, "Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." 5. In their use of lawful comforts, there is a great change.... | |
| John Brewster - 1830 - 602 pages
...was intended to take away all occasion of offence from a weak brother ; " If meat," says St. Paul, " make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend 1." We should not be backward in adopting measures of peace... | |
| 1830 - 602 pages
...writing to another church, he expresses himself in a manner still stronger. " If meat," says he, " make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend," 1 Cor. 8: 13. To complete his view of the whole subject,... | |
| John Gregory Pike - 1831 - 396 pages
...ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend."" Christian love is to be shown by attending to those little... | |
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