...Sorts of Dainties, and lives upon Delicacies out of Choice, may be no Epicure. AGAIN, Who does not know that a Man may give all his Go'ods to feed the Poor, and yet want Charity ? But will any one therefore conclude, that another may keep all his Goods to...

...forts of dainties, and lives upon delicacies out of choice, may be no Epicure. AGAIN, who does not know that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and yet want charity ? but will any one therefore conclude, that another may keep all his goods to...

...a great number of other learned and ingenious writers. In the fecond difcourfe, the author proves, that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and yet be destitute of true chrifttan charity. — This exhibits a juft defcription of univerfal benevolence....

...know where it is written, " husbands, love your wives even as Christ loved the church." We know also, that " a man may give all his goods to feed the poor," and yet be " nothing." It is one thing to enrich a Missionary or a Bible Society ; another, to " seek...

...confound zeal with piety — especially when accompanied by mortification and self-denial — he declares, that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burned, and it still shall profit him nothing. In a Christian man, what else is...

...accordingly be exercised in them, and yet exercise little real love in them all. Hence our apostle supposeth that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and yet have no charity, 1 Cor. xiii, 2. All fruit partakes of the nature of the root. §9. With this...

...accordingly be exercised in them, and yet exercise little real love in them all. Hence our apostle supposeth that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and yet have no charity, 1 Cor. xiii, 2. All fruit partakes of the nature of the root. §9. With this...

...pernicious mistakes we are prone, guards us most particularly against such a conclusion, by informing us that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burnt, and yet be devoid of charity. When, therefore, it is said that the end of...

...will, he said, was going another. xxxnr. THE Apostle Paul, in his Epistle to the Corinthians, says, that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and yet not have charity. His opinions of this rare gift are very different to those of the present...

...marred by the base principle it proceeds from, and selfish end it tends to. The Apostle hath told us, that a man may give all his goods to feed the poor, and yet want charity; and all these expenses shall profit him nothing. Importunity may perhaps wring...