 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 488 pages
...apostle directs us to make of this doctrine in the close of my text : " Who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it ?" This reasoning is so plain and simple, that a child may understand it ; and yet so perfectly just,... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...Spirit : and the answer to this kind of pride occurs, i Cor. iv. 7. " who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive...didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst nut received it." (I) "According," &c that is, upon the conviétion that it is God that has allotted... | |
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 606 pages
...extreme folly, to be terrified and to fly from that to which the Scripture calls us: "If," says he, " thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?" (n) You see that he divests free will of every thing with the express design of leaving no room for... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1817 - 680 pages
...thee to differ from another? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? But if thou didst only receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not...Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned without us : and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with 9 you. For I think [that] God hath... | |
 | Timothy East - 1817 - 246 pages
...humble spirit which will be your brightest ornament. " For who niaketh thec to differ from another 1 and what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? now,...receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst uot received it!" LETTER III. IT will be of importance for you to recollect that the excellence of... | |
 | Future punishment - 1817 - 334 pages
...immortality, where is the Eternity of Misery to -come from ? iv. 7. " For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive?...thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou didst not receive it r" We have nothing that we did not receive ; then withdrawing the gift must put... | |
 | 1817 - 842 pages
...written, that no one of you be puffed np for one against another. 7 For wbo maketh thee to differfrom another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thon g-lory, as if thou hadst not received it ? S Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye hâve reigned... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1817 - 780 pages
...distinguished — " Who makcth tliec to difl'er from another? What hast thou ihut thou hast not received? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?" Not only has every virtue, whether more or less eminent, one common derivation, but the disparity itself... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...every one the measure of faith. Be not wise in your own conceits f. For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive...why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it g ? Where is boasting then ? it is excluded. By what law ? of works ? nay, but by the law of faith... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1819 - 636 pages
...communities or i Cor. iv. 7. churches: Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast than, that tliou didst not receive ? Now if thou didst receive it,...dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it? From these and many more passages of the like nature Isa. Izr. l. it is plain, that in the promulgation... | |
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For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it... 
