 | John Bunyan - 1795 - 638 pàgines
...know the GOD above will say Amen to; and also nothing but what your conscience can justify you in : " for not he that commendeth himself is approved, " but whom the LORD commendeth." Besides, to say I am thus and thus, when my coversation and all my neighbours tell me I lie, is great... | |
 | 310 pàgines
...ONE. (Matt. xxvi. ; Mark xiv. ; John xii.) Oh, to desire the honour which cometh from God only ! " not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." Woman was several times honoured by the Lord Jesus. There •was the Syro-Phenician, for her importunity... | |
 | William Jones - 1801 - 544 pàgines
...he may be called forth to maintain it. bad man; a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit : and, not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Upon the whole, he that will be saved, must be saved in the way which God hath appointed, and not in... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pàgines
...man's line, of things made ready to pur hand. 1 7 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 1 8 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. CHAP. XI. Paul's forced self commendation. WOULD to God ye coulc bear with me a little in my folly... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pàgines
...to the excellent graces and endowments of others. " But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. For not he, that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. Nothing affords greater satisfaction to false apostles than commendation and praise ; while the true... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1806 - 454 pàgines
...the God above will say Amen to ; and also nothing but what yovir conscience can justify you in : " for not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." Besides, to say I am thus and thus, when my conversation and all my neighbours tell me I lie, is great... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1807 - 428 pàgines
...rule [or line] in things made ready to our hand. But 18 he- that boasteth, let him boast in the Lord : for not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commcndeth. REFLECTIONS. May the meekness and gentleness of Cliritt ever be remembered byall his servants,... | |
 | William Jones - 1810 - 502 pàgines
...takes this judgment out of our own hands, and gives it, first to other men, but ultimately to God : " not he that commendeth himself is approved, but " whom the LORD commendeth." He that ha,th the judgment of himself in his own hands will naturally despise the judgment of other... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 462 pàgines
...decision of the great Judge, before whom we shall all shortly appear ; and then it will be known that " not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth." For the present I shall pursue my old method, that is if I hear of any new preacher, or new publication,... | |
 | John Newton - 1811 - 690 pàgines
...any thing else. We shall all be of one mind ere long. In the mean time, may we ever remember, that not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. I am glad you have been at H — ; I made no doubt but you would love my dear friend ; possibly I .may... | |
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For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. 
