| John Bevans - 1810 - 134 páginas
...received, let him be accursed. 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. • 89th Q. — Is the aid of human learning then entirely precluded? A.— No, for though it is not... | |
| William Mason - 1811 - 302 páginas
...VOL. IV. M SERMON XIII. Galat. 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. Ij T. Paul, we see, here puts two questions with respect to his own apostolic character, which may,... | |
| Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 páginas
...gospel. "Do I," says he to the Galatians, "do 1 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." He assures the Thessalonians, that he had made it his rnaxiiTi as a minister, to please God rather... | |
| 1838 - 716 páginas
...seeking my own profit, but the profit of many." And all this, notwithstanding his other declaration, " If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Such seeming contradictions are not irreconcilable. Assuredly we may find occasions for not pleasing... | |
| 1815 - 608 páginas
...the doctrine that I would here persuade, is it that of men or of God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ. 11 But I declare to you, brethren, that the gospel which I preached is not from man. 12. For I neither... | |
| Samuel Charters - 1815 - 110 páginas
...cried, crucify him, than when they cried Hosannah in the highest. " Do I seek to " please men ? for if I yet pleased men I " should not be the servant of Christ |." • Hutchison's Justice of Peace. •)• Ibid. J Galatians i. 10. ON BASHFULNESS. Part Fifth.... | |
| 1824 - 452 páginas
...as a minister. He does not seem to have duly considered-the full import of the apostle's words : " If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." There were nevertheless, excellent traits in his character, and those who possessed his friendship,... | |
| 1815 - 406 páginas
...feared his people would not long endure such searching sermons. His reply was, "I mutt preach the truth. If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of €hrist." His last sermon was from this text: Be ye doers of the word, end not hearers only. Some... | |
| David Brown, Charles Simeon - 1816 - 528 páginas
...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 - 368 páginas
...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... | |
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