 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
 | John Evans - 1825 - 568 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1825 - 794 pages
...performing can be of such excellence as to fulfil, stall less to transcend the requisitions of duty. Luke xvii. 10. when ye shall have done all those things...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... | |
 | Mary Martha Sherwood - 1825 - 302 pages
...Spirit: and with these views he frequently reminded her of those words of our Lord — 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. (Luke xvii. 10.) Very little change took place in the state of Mr. Williams's circumstances... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 604 pages
...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." Luke xvii. 10. It is evident, that this strong admonition was intended, by our Saviour,... | |
 | 1825 - 556 pages
...belong ? Certainly not to the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ : for he hath said, " So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our <toy to do." Lukexvii. 10. —Pp. 25, 26. Antinomians are perpetually declaiming against pharisaic... | |
 | George Townsend - 1825 - 680 pages
...and afterward thou shalt eat and drink ? that 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. 9- Doth he thank that servant because he did the things SECTION Christ journeys towards... | |
 | William Jowett, Joseph Greaves - 1825 - 550 pages
...the sake of Christ, the great Mediator ; or words of similar import. I answered by quoting the words, When ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. He proceeded to speak of the different degrees of worship, Latria, Hyperdulia, and Dulia;... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1825 - 130 pages
...'insomuch that by them a lively faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit'. things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do Ps. cxliii. 2. c Heb. xiii. 16, 20, 21. To do good and to communicate forget not ; for with... | |
 | William Malkin - 1825 - 504 pages
...fruit.— Ver. 16 ; Gal. v. 6 ; Col. i. 10 ; Tit. iii. 8. 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 duty to do. — Ps. cxliii. 2. Heb. xiii. 16, 20, 21. To do good, and to communicate forget not; for... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 524 pages
...for obedience performed, for that is due to him by natural right; 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.' Psal. xvi. 2. ' My goodness extendeth not unto thee.' But every man owes to God obedience,... | |
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