 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 680 pages
...reception. The argument urged in the text would have concluded against this with equal and superior force : The son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. You see then, how properly these words may be used, to introduce a discourse against persecution... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 738 pages
...reception. The argument urged in the text would have concluded against this with equal and superior force: The son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. You see then, how properly these words may be used, to introduce a discourse against persecution... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 540 pages
...mockery or a sin to make them our copies. Elias is no fit pattern for disciples, but their Master : The Son of Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. Then are our actions and intentions warrantable and praise-worthy, when they accord with... | |
 | George Buist - 1809 - 350 pages
...reprove their fault, and correct their mistake ? " Ye " know not what manner of spirit ye are of; " the son of man came not to destroy men's " lives, but to save them." Though he came to his own, and his own received him not, he was not angry and exasperated... | |
 | George Campbell - 1811 - 558 pages
...imprecation. See 1 Sam. iv. 7, 8. Jer. iv. J3. vi. 4. Lam. v. 16. both in the Sep. and in the KT In fine, as the Son of Man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them; he came not to curse, but to bless us, by turning away every one of us from his iniquities. The words... | |
 | John Newton - 1811 - 206 pages
...such things ? Are these the fruits of love ? Is it thus we do as we would wish to be done by ? Surely the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. Thus much for the present. I commend you to the care and blessing of the Lord ; and with... | |
 | John Murray - 1812 - 426 pages
...admittance into their city, what was then the doctrine which he taught ? Ye know not what spirit ye are of ; the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And again, if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not, for I came not to... | |
 | Noah Worcester - 1816 - 814 pages
...benignant purpose of God, in sending his Son as the Prince of Peace. Thus said the benevolent Messiah — "The Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." His doctrines, his precepts, his prohibitions, his examples, and his prayers. were all... | |
 | 1816 - 408 pages
...and misery, shall be regarded with horrour, and when it shall no longer be problematical, whether " the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." Is it a pleasant dream, resulting from an enthusiastick desire for such a season, or is... | |
 | 1816 - 458 pages
...benignant purpose of God, in sending his Son as the Prince of Peace. Thus said the benevolent Messiah — " The Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them." His doctrines, his precepts, his prohibitions, his examples, and his prayers, were all... | |
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Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them. 
