 | Thomas Haweis - Evangelicalism - 1803 - 344 pages
...our pilgrimage, two things especially we need to abound in, humility and zeal. First, Humility. ' For what have we that we have not received"? and if we have received it, why should we glory as though we had not receivcd it ?' [1 Cor. iv. 7.] Whatever we are-, * it... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 566 pages
...strength ; but let him, that glorielh, glory in the Lord, for he is our strength and our deliverer. What have we, that we have not received ; and if we have received, why do we boast as though we had not received 9 It is not what we have of ourselves ; but it is what we have... | |
 | Jacques Marsollier - 1812 - 680 pages
...justice, as the multitude of our sins. Let us consider what He has done for us, and what we have dpne against Him ; and as we examine our sins in detail,...we had not received." " On the contrary," adds the holy prelate, " the lively consideration of the graces received, renders us humble, because knowledge... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - Salvation - 1818 - 226 pages
...bestowed on man after his having come to the years of understanding. " Who maketh us to differ ? and what have we that we have not received? and if we have received it, why should we bojist as though we had not received it ?" (1 Cor. iv. 7.) [~~I<'rom these considerations,... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Lord's Supper - 1828 - 294 pages
...condemnation of the devil." Let us dread the first risings of self-conceit, and suppress them ; for, " what have we that we have not received ? And if we have received it, why then do we boast ?" 2d, Let us therefore fix ; and let our hearts be established with the grace... | |
 | William Orme - Holy Spirit - 1828 - 292 pages
...from God and give it to the creature. With him, in every instance, all that is good must originate. What have we that we have not received; and if we have received it, it does not become us to glory. My object has been to shew, that Scriptural principles are confirmed... | |
 | Matthew Henry - Dissenters, Religious - 1833 - 774 pages
...of the devil, 1 Tim. iii. 6. Let us dread the first risings of self-conceit, and suppress them ; for what have we that we have not received? And if we have received it, why then do we boast ? 1 Cor. iv. 7. 2. Let us therefore fix ; and let our hearts be established... | |
 | Isaac AMBROSE - 1837 - 176 pages
...your life has been, it was not of yourself, but of the free gift and grace of God in Christ Jesus : " What have we, that we have not received ; and if we have received it, why do we glory, as if we have not received it ? " It is related of Mr. Knox, that the night before... | |
 | 1838 - 250 pages
...seeing ourselves as we really are, just nothing except as we are made something by God's gifts : " ior what have we that we have not received ? and if we have received" why do we boast ? What does St. Paul say that God has dealt out? " To every man," &c. this power faithfully,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth (rector of Watton, Herts.) - Meditation - 1838 - 604 pages
...wholly and for ever his hereafter? This we owe to his Spirit; for this too we O 2 should give thanks ; what have we that we have not received ? And if we have been strengthened against our natural corruption for any painful and self-denying duty; reproving sin,... | |
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... to fear lest this dead fly spoil all our precious ointment, and to keep a very strict and jealous eye upon our own hearts, that they be not lifted up with pride, "lest we fall into the condemnation of the devil. 
