...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...Indians, for relieving the wants of the needy, for humanizing the minds of men and improving thcir condition and their morals, for abolishing sanguinary...that in our region, Christians of different opinions bave become more aware, that the fruits of the spirit of Christ, are not " hatred, variance, wrath,...

...a murderer from the beginning, and of antichrist's, his first begotten in the world : and he adds, the Son of man came not to destroy men's lives, but to save them ; and therefore to go about to turn the gospel, not to save men's lives, but to destroy them,...

...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...