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
| George Thomas Chapman - 1828 - 424 pages
...appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us." "When ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants: We have done that which was our duty to do." There is indeed not one single passage in the bible, that will fairly admit of a different... | |
| William Russell Macdonald - 1829 - 286 pages
...assisting us to win those graces. Christ himself tells his disciples (Luke xvii. 10), " So, likewise, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants ; — we have done that which was our duty to do." When Paul desires Timothy to "stir up the gift of God," &c. it is a proof that he possessed... | |
| 1829 - 740 pages
...entirely ignorant of, that Isaiah says, " all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags;" and St. Luke, " Ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do." Chap. xvii. 10. The attack upon Prayer-meetings might, with a little pruning, pass for... | |
| John Fuller - 1829 - 448 pages
...that is, by, or from his own act, and this is confirmed from the words of Christ himself, who says, " when ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do V The second fact 183 is drawn also from the same words; as man cannot effect his own justification,... | |
| John Everitt Good - 1829 - 692 pages
...in themselves. Let us, therefore, follow the direction of our blessed Instructor: "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."* The method of salvation is fully stated by St. Paul, in the words which I now utter,... | |
| John Monaghan - 1829 - 144 pages
...good work cannot atone for the neglect of another. Where then is boasting ? for our Lord says, — " 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. Of the sacrifice of the Mass, its nature and origin. BUT this vain and... | |
| 1829 - 742 pages
...says, " all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags ;" and St.. Luke, " Ye, when ye shall have clone all those things which are commanded you, say, We...unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do." Chap. xvii. 10. The attack upon Prayer-meetings mkjit, with a little pruning, pass for... | |
| James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...the things that were com- 9 manded him ? I trow not. So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all 10 those things which are commanded you, say, We are...unprofitable servants : we have done that which was our duty to do. Christ 'ourne 9 to AND it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he 1 1 words Jerusalem,... | |
| William Paley - 1830 - 392 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. 1 0. It is evident, that this strong admonition was intended, by our Saviour,... | |
| Charles James Blomfield (bp. of London.) - 1832 - 502 pages
...notion of a meritorious obedience on our parts, is for ever excluded, by our Saviour's emphatic words, When ye shall have done all those things which are...unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do* We can, therefore, put no confidence in our very best works, as having in themselves any... | |
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