 | Jeremy Collier - British Isles - 1852 - 642 pages
...off the impression which the execution might otherwise have made upon the company. His text was, " If I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.'" From these words l Cor. is. 3. he observes, that it was the cause, and not the pain, which... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1853 - 566 pages
...when the bishops Ridley and Latimer were brought to the stake, he preached a sermon on the text, " If I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Thii discourse, which lasted only about a quarter of an hour, was replete with invectives... | |
 | Thomas Binney - 1865 - 342 pages
...mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." * In this striking way does St. Paul set before us the utter worthlessness of everything... | |
 | Frederick James Furnivall - English literature - 1867 - 172 pages
...whefir it1 be, But1 euere glad to goddis plesiwg1 40 To cherische alle men in charitee. And though I give my body to be burnt, and have not Charity, it profits nothing. God told Pnnl to teach hi* diacipleB the 16 points of Charity. 1. Charity is p itient,... | |
 | Walter Hilton - Perfection - 1870 - 348 pages
...timigh I had all manner of knowledge of all myjteries, and if / give all that I have to the poor, and my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me right nought. Here it feemeth by S. Paul's words, that a man may do all good deeds bodily without charity,... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet (bp. of Salisbury.) - 1872 - 444 pages
...sufferings. "When they came to the stake they embraced and encouraged one another. Smith preached on those words, "If I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth nothing ; " and he compared their dying for heresy to Judas' s, that hanged himself. Ridley desired... | |
 | 1875 - 930 pages
...compensation, must be inward, of the spirit. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. It is impossible to put the case more strongly. I may say, Behold, I have given up all, nay,... | |
 | Henry Gibson - 1877 - 382 pages
...charity, I am nothing. And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing."* Our Blessed Lord himself also, in the parable of the marriage feast, shows us that no one... | |
 | 1882 - 666 pages
...trumpet, as the hypocrites do, that they may have glory of men. Good works should shine, but not blaze. [f I give my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profits me nothing. The same, I may say, of a sincere aim ; if I obey never so much, and have not a... | |
 | Saint Augustine (of Hippo), Mary Helen Allies - Christian literature, Early - 1886 - 1012 pages
...vainglory, as in this passage : If I should distribute all my goods to the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burnt, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. This is the nuptial-garment. Ask yourselves if you have it, for if so you may sit confidently... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and though I give my body to be burnt and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing... 
