 | Hugh Blair - 1790 - 470 pages
...and character? but what the fcripture exprefles with great propriety, when it exhorts every man, nof to think of himfelf more highly than he ought to think, but to think foberly*. He who adopts all the flattering fuggeftions of felf-love, and forms claims upon the world proportioned... | |
 | Thomas Secker - 1792 - 540 pages
...amongji us, for our direction in this behalf? Only, not to think of ourfelves more highly than v:e ought to think ; but to think foberly, according as God hath 'dealt to ' * See Job xiii. 24. xix. II. xxxiii. 10 xli 27, 29. Phil. iii. 7, 8. See »Ifo a letter in the Namilli... | |
 | Benjamin Jenks - 1793 - 554 pages
...admonition, Rom. xii. 3. " I fay, through the grace given unto " me, to every man that is among you, not to think " of himfelf more highly than he ought...God hath dealt " to every man the meafure of faith." But ftill he talks fo much of grace and faith, inftead of works and felf-righteoufnefs, that he is... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1794 - 356 pages
...the " grace given unto me, to every man that is ** among you, not to think of himfelf more high" ly than he ought to think ; but to think foberly, " according...God hath dealt to every man the " meafure of faith." The fame apoftle argues this matter more particularly in I Cor. iy. 6. &c. ** That no one of you be... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1796 - 472 pages
...think " ofourfelves more highly than we ought " to think, but to think foherly" (mark the exprefllon), according as God hath dealt " to every man the meafure of faith." " Let ** nothing t»e done through ftrife and vainglory," faith this fame Apoftle, at the verfe of... | |
 | David Austin - 1796 - 542 pages
...puffed up thereby. It is the wholefome inftruction of an infpired Apoftle, to every man among you, not to think of himfelf more highly than he ought to think; hut to think foherly, according as God hath dealt to every man the meafure of faith. Thus praife ferves... | |
 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1798 - 500 pages
...ON ROMANS XII. 3 12. 3« For I fay, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himfelf more highly than he ought...God hath dealt to every man the meafure of faith. BESIDES the common word of edification implying it, we find often, in the Scriptures, teaching compared... | |
 | Methodist episcopal church - 1798 - 192 pages
...fay, through the grace given unto me," obferves the great apoftb, " to every man that is among you, not to think of himfelf more highly than he ought...foberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the mcafure of faith," Rom. xii. 3. And again, " We preach not curfelves, but Chrift Jefns the Lord ; and... | |
 | William Enfield, John Aikin - 1798 - 488 pages
...the exercife of my office and authority as an apoftolic teacher of religion, to every man among you, not to think of himfelf more highly than he ought to think." It is evidently required by this precept, in the firft place, that we fhould not think ourfelves poflefied... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1801 - 654 pages
...*>f the Apoflles. " Let no man think of himfelf above that which he ought to think, but think faberly according as God hath dealt to every man the meafure of faith. Let nothing be done through ftrife or vain glory, but in lowlinefi of mind let each efteem other better... | |
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For I fay, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think, of himfelf more highly than he ought to think, but to think foberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the meafure of Faith. 
