 So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do.  The English Review - Page 4991849Full view - About this book
 | Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1810 - 438 pages
...thank that servant because he did the things that were commanded him ? I trow not. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. And he spake a parable unto them, to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 548 pages
...Igr doing our duty? Hear what the Saviour saith, Luke xvii. 10 " When ye shall have done all these things, which are commanded you, say. We are unprofitable servants ; we have done that which was our Juty to do." (b) If good works did merit that great reward, then we 'aught to do them of and by ourselves... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...Christ unto eternal life. IV. P Luke xvii. 1O. So likewise je, when ye shall have done all those tl'in^s which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. Neh. xiii. 22. And 1 commanded the Levites, that they should cleanse themselves, and that... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 506 pages
...servant, and then applies it to his disciples, saying, " So likewise yc, when ye shall have done all these things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants;" we have done that which was our duty to do. Wo then to that person whose faith and hope of everlasting life, and blessedness in heaven,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 448 pages
...debt,' Rom. iv. 4. ' But can a man be profitable to God?' Job iv. 4. Our Saviour teaches us otherwise, Luke xvii. 10, ' When ye shall have done all those...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do.' A command to do it, and grace to obey that command, and a ' far more exceeding and eternal... | |
 | 1812 - 680 pages
...our part. He is not our debtor for them. " So likewise ye, when ye shall have done .ill these thingSj which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do." But in fact all these good actions are detective in / goodness. It might be shown of every... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...of the law ; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified. Luke xvii. 10. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do. u Rom. vi. 12. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 pages
...thank that servant because he did the things " that were commanded him ? I trow not. So " likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those '' things which...unprofitable servants : we have done that which " was our duty to do."* We have nothing but what we have received r boasting is excluded : all is of grace :... | |
 | Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) - 1814 - 364 pages
...of self exaltation ; buO rather to keep in continual remembrance the words of the gospel : " When ye have done all> those things which are commanded you,...unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do." Woe to the despisers of the holy will of the Lord, who, preferring sensual pleasure to... | |
 | Reformed Church in America - 1815 - 290 pages
...ivorketh in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Let us therefore attend to what is written, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. In the mean time, we do not deny, that God rewards good works, but it is through his grace... | |
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