 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
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 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." Here Christ discards the idea of a legal reward in the most pointed terms. And in the... | |
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - 1823 - 358 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... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pages
...characters. Now, one precept, and that of Christ himself, you find to be this: " Ye, when ye shall have doue all those things which are commanded you, say, We...unprofitable servants ; we have done that which was our duty to do,"* It is evident, that this strong admonition was intended, by our Saviour, to check in... | |
 | 1824 - 462 pages
...drunken ; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink ? were commanded him ? I trow not. 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. 1 1 IT And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that be passed through the midst of... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 388 pages
...example of Christian characters. Now, one precept, and that of Christ himself, you find to be this : "Ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants; we have done that which was our duty to do."* It is evident, that this strong admomtion was intended, by our Sariour, to check in his... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 376 pages
...example of Christian characters. Now, one precept, and that of Christ himself, yon find to be this: "Ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants ; we have done that which was our duly "* It is evident, that this strong admonition was intended, by our Saviour, to check in his disciples... | |
 | John Henry Hobart (bp. of New York.) - 1824 - 514 pages
................ • . . 33 SERMON IV. MAN CAN HAVE NO MERIT BEFORE GOD. • LUKE xvii. 10. FACE 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. 52 SERMON V. WALKING BY FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT. 2 COR. v. 7. We walk by faith, not by sight... | |
 | John Locke - 1824 - 530 pages
...down, why cumbereth it the ground ? &c. Strive to enter in at the strait gate. — Luke xiii. 7, 24. When ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do. — Luke xvii. 10. Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. John xii.... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 472 pages
...performing can be of such excellence as to fulfil, still less to transcend the requisitions of duty. Luke xvii. 10. ' when ye shall have done all those...unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do.' Those counsels of the gospel, therefore, which the Papists affirm to be of a higher nature... | |
 | John Evans - 1825 - 562 pages
...perfect. Whatever the pride of nature may suggest, this is the lesson which Christ teaches his disciples, Luke xvii. 10. " When ye shall have done all those...unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do," and no more. It could not properly deserve divine favour : how much less capable are we... | |
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