| William Dodd - 1828 - 522 páginas
...for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able to bear it. — 1 Cor. iii. 2. All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient (or profitable); all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. —... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 560 páginas
...order to that end whither their calling is designed,. To this sense are those words of St. Paul ; " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient •" that is, some things which directly are lawful, by an indirect obligation may become unfit to... | |
| 1829 - 396 páginas
...estimable qualities of heart and intellect ; but one thing is certain — he is not like the apostle Paul. He says, " All things are lawful for me, but all things...things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Let no man seek his own, but every man another's. Give none offence, neither to the Jews nor to the... | |
| 1829 - 986 páginas
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| John Platts - 1833 - 504 páginas
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| John Fletcher - 1830 - 364 páginas
...means save some. And this I do for the gospel's sake. All things are lawful for me," continues he, " but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. When ye sin against the brethren" by wounding " their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. Wherefore,... | |
| William Lowfield Fancourt - 1830 - 554 páginas
...join in the claim, c'2 19 that at least the spirit of the apostle's maxim should be consulted, — ' All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient.'" I should probably not have directed your attention, my dear friend, to this topic, had not some of... | |
| Charles Daubeny - 1830 - 1120 páginas
...offend others — considering th«m wrong only in their abuse, and as coming under St. Paul's mle — " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." He was a great lover of music — sacred music forming one of his highest gratifications — he had... | |
| John Bunyan - 1831 - 686 páginas
...pure al things are pure," it may well be retorted that which the same apostle said in another place, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any thing," 1 Cor. vi. 12. To which he immediately subjoins... | |
| John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 páginas
...come forth by prayer and fasting. St. Paul lived in this course of self-denial. He describes it, when he says, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient." " I will not be brought within the power of any." " I keep under my body, find bring it into subjection."... | |
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