 | 1817 - 368 pages
...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... | |
 | James Lindsay - 1818 - 520 pages
...and numbers, and personal reputation were, in his estimation, less than nothing. His language is, " Do I seek to please men ? If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? What things were gain to me, those... | |
 | 1843 - 628 pages
...1 Cm-, x. 33, St. Paul says, " I please all men in all things ;" and yet in Gal. i. 10, he says, " If I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ." Yours affectionately, Pimlico. WH WELSH. 1. The first of these expressions, frequently repeated in... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...every man have praise of God b. 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 Christ0. As we are allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, eve» so we speak, not as pleasing... | |
 | 1863 - 1198 pages
...Never, perhaps, was there a man of purer motives and loftier aims. " Do I seek to please men 1 for, if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." (Gal. i. 10.) He sought indeed to please men "for their good to edification ; " but beyond this he... | |
 | James Murdock - 1823 - 316 pages
...which they preach. So impressed was the apostle with this truth, that he said to the Galatians : " If I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Notwithstanding all the prudence which he exercised, the spirit of accommodation which he uniformly... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 494 pages
...received, let him be accursed. 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." If Paul could not please both God and man, by preaching divine truths plainly, then, no other ministers... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 474 pages
...received, let him be accursed. 10 For do I now persnade men, or God ? Or do I seek to please men ? For, if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ. l t PARAPHRASE. 7 in Christ) unto another sort of Gospel ; Which is not owing to any thing else", but... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 466 pages
...received, let him be accursed. 1 0 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. PARAPHRASE. 7 in Christ) unto another sort of Gospel ; Which is not owing to any thing else a, but... | |
 | 1923 - 662 pages
...watchman. No preacher knew how to use acceptable words better than the Apostle Paul — and yet he says, " if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Had he consulted their passions and prejudices, had he sought to make his words acceptable to his hearers,... | |
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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. 
