 | J. Fletcher - 1843 - 472 sider
...that were without law ; who to the weak became as weak, that he might gain the weak ; who was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some," — you have been enabled to condescend to the lowly condition of uncivilized men, to dwell among them,... | |
 | Charles Adolphus Row - 1843 - 290 sider
...truth. Against this spirit let us place the large-minded principle of the apostle, that he habitually became " all things to all men, that he might by all means save some "; and keep clearly before our minds the distinction between the outward forms in which, from age to... | |
 | Robert MOFFAT (Missionary.) - 1843 - 196 sider
...that were without law ; who to the weak became as weak, that he might gain the weak ; who was made all things to all men that he might by all means save some ;" — you have been enabled to condescend to the lowly condition of uncivilized men, to dwell among... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1844 - 712 sider
...able to gam, say. His practice here is agreeable to what he saith of himself, 1 Cor ix. 22, " That to Hobab is the language of every true saint of your acquaintance to y He not only to the weak became as weak, that he might gain the weak; W to the wise he became as wise,... | |
 | William Gresley - 1844 - 372 sider
...them that were without law ; to the weak, lie became as weak, that he might gain the weak : he was all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. This judicious management it is our bounden duty to study, for the edification of those committed to... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1844 - 570 sider
...he had made himself servant unto all, that he might gain the more souls to Christ ; that he was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." But here is the excellence of Christian compliance, that it regards the favour of men, not as an end,... | |
 | John Michael Hiffernan - 1844 - 112 sider
...in." In these opposite courses, his moving principle was expediency. He was, as he himself tells us " all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." Nor this upon matters of merely trivial religious importance, but on one which, he felt, justified... | |
 | Charles Bridges - 1844 - 576 sider
...differ as widely from mere official advice or remonstrance, as the tender counsel of a loving father things to all men, that he might by all means save some;" always on the watch for opportunities of seasonably interposing the great truths and warnings of the... | |
 | John Forster - 1846 - 738 sider
...keep silence even from good (though his sorrow was stirred by it, and the fire burned within while lie was musing) in case that either wicked or but shortsighted...yea, he was in a constant readiness to perform any itarrantablc ctriltlies to all men. Anything that was good he owned and cherished in the honest moral... | |
 | John Forster - 1846 - 726 sider
...shortsighted good men were before him that he perceived could not bear more spiritual and sublimated 'roths. He became- all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. His heart ws of a right scripture latitude ; stood fair ud open for any good, but no evil, .ill sorts of cmicientious... | |
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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. 
