 | John Evans - 1825 - 568 pages
...self-exaltation ; but the humble are in the way to the truest glory, while they seem to fly from it : " Whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased ; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted," Matt. xxiii. 12. He shall be high in God's estimation ; God is like to put the greatest honour on such... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1825 - 362 pages
...for one is your Master, even Christ. But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased ; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted ;" Matt, xxiii, 8 — 12. This instructive passage of Scripture may be regarded in two points of view.... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 972 pages
...one is jour Master, even Christ. 11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And 13 But woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 454 pages
...for one is your Master, even Christ; but he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant; and whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted VI make no further remark upon these passages (because they are, in truth, only a repetition of the... | |
 | Jacobus Arminius, James Nichols - 1825 - 828 pages
...to lie in exact proportion to his humbling views of himself, according to the evangelical maxim : " Whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased ; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted." (Matt, xxiii, 12.) The founc1ation of all true piety is properly laid in HUMILITY : By it and the twin... | |
 | James Hervey - 1825 - 396 pages
...excellent commentator, " that no one sentence uttered by our Lord is so frequently repeated as this : ' Whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased ; and he that shall humble himself, shall be exalted ;' which occurs at least ten times in the Evangelists ; but is never duly accomplished in us, till... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - 630 pages
...shall * humble himself us this little, child, the same is greatest in the kingdom af heaven. • And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased ; and he that shall humble himself ¿hall be exalted, Matt, xxiii. 12. LORD, my heart is not, haughty, nor mine eyes lofty : neither do... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 376 pages
...virtue pervades and ennobles the whole system of Christian morality. Our Saviour's declaration, " that whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted ;" and his apostle's, " God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace unto the humble ;" followed by his... | |
 | John Platts - 1827 - 676 pages
...fear ? MAT. vi. 9 : Our Father whico art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. 12 And whosoever shall k exalt himself shall be abased ; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. 13 ^[ But ' woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye '"shut up the kingdom of heaven... | |
 | 1827 - 512 pages
...for one is your master, even Christ. 50 But he that is greatest among you, shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself, shall be abased; and he that shall humble himsejf, shall be exalted. But wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye shut up the... | |
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And call no man your father upon the earth : for one is your Father which is in heaven. 
