 | Timothy Dwight - 1813 - 638 pàgines
...example. In things, which do not come under the cognizance either of doctrine or of law, he "became ajl things to all men, that he might by all means save some.'* Let us remark, 6. The patience, the equanimity and the buoyancy of spirit, with which he endured that... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pàgines
...church and country, but of the human race, ledhim to adopt the principle of the same apostle of being made all things to all men that he might by all means save some, a servant to all that he might gain the more. His idea was, that by accommodating themselves to their... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pàgines
...have such hope, we use great plainness of speech." Yet Paul with all his plainness, could become " all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." It will be seen, perhaps, in the following narrative that concessions by no means sinful, or unauthorized... | |
 | John Ryland, James Hinton - 1816 - 144 pàgines
...and advice of the apostle Paul, (than whom no man was better acquainted with human nature) " becoming all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." No person, however, could charge him with dissimulation. His temper was naturally rather too unbending... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 538 pàgines
...gainsay. His practice here is agreenble to what he saith of himself, 1 Cor. ix. 22. that he became all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. He not only to the weak became as weak, that he might gain the weak ; but to the wise he became as... | |
 | 1818 - 588 pàgines
...and advice of the apostle Paul (than whom no man was better acquainted with human nature) " becoming all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." No person, however, could charge him with dissimulation. His temper was naturally rather too unoending... | |
 | 174 pàgines
...esteem other better than themselves," (Phil. ii. 3.) What he preached he practised, for he became " all things to all men, that he might by all means save some," (1 Cor. ix. 22.) and not content with his own example, he shewed us a brighter pattern still, — "... | |
 | John Pearson (bp. of Chester.) - 1822 - 576 pàgines
...Paul "-provoked to emulation them which were his flesh, that he might save tome of them," Rom. xi. 14; and "was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some," 1 Cor. ix. 2. He exhorteth Timothy " to take heed unto himself, and unto the doctrine, and continue... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1822 - 478 pàgines
...if they cannot be saved without exalted ideas of faith and love. St. Paul speaks of making himself all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. That is, I presume, he placed different motives before them, as he saw occasion. The scriptures cer-,... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1822 - 464 pàgines
...if they cannot be saved without exalted ideas of faith and love. St. Paul speaks of making himself all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. That is, I presume, he placed different motives before them, as he saw occasion. The scriptures certainly... | |
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To the weak he became as weak, that he might gain the weak : and was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. 
