 | Congregational churches - 1832 - 736 pages
...every one is required in this case merely to follow the dictates of his own conscience ; because " to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean j" and " whatsoever is not of faith," — according to a man's conviction of duty, — "is sin." "... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Christianity - 1833 - 186 pages
...conscience. 'I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence. It is good neither... | |
 | Sir Robert Anderson - Bible - 1837 - 608 pages
...God's people, which were otherwise cursed in Adam.1 — Calvin. NOTE 76. (Chap. xiv. 14. — Page 427.) To him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. — ' It is dangerous to trifle with conscience, even when erroneous. It should be borne with, and instructed.... | |
 | Edward Stopford (bp. of Meath.) - 1837 - 282 pages
...to fall in his brother's way. I know and am persuaded that there is nothing unclean of itself ; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1866 - 670 pages
...St. Peter's chair — knew, and argued on his knowledge, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. J In effect the passage is at one with a foregoing reflection of Leontes, on one who drinks and sees... | |
 | William Paley - Church of England - 1837 - 474 pages
...contented. " I know and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself; but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth ; and he that doubteth is damned... | |
 | John Hoppus - Christianity - 1839 - 634 pages
...only on the principle that conscience, guided by scripture, is the final umpire in religion — that ' to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean' — and that ' whatsoever is not of faith is sin' : * — ye, too, • ' We assert that the action,... | |
 | 1841 - 752 pages
...real and solemn a thing as a Protestant, and should be respected in its most erroneous workings: ' to him ' that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.' What opinions must a man profess but his own ? And if he profess his own, what right has any other... | |
 | 1841 - 844 pages
...brother's way. I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself: but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. But if thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with... | |
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I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself : but to him that esteemeth anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean. 
