...lights.' I" pou this consideration the apostle proceeds to check the Christian Pharisee thus: ' What hast thou that thou didst not receive ? Now if thou...dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?' — Whence it follows, that, though St. Panl himself glories in, and boasts of his disinterestedness,...

...hath made thee to differ? (saith Paul, 1 Cor. iv. to those who wished to set aside this equality,) and what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? now,...thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou had? t not received it ?" Thus, while God reigns in us through Christ, all things are his and nothing...

...endowments to ourselves. This made the lowly-minded apostle expostulate with the Corinthian converts : " Who maketh thee to differ from another, and what hast...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it. " Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth." Moses equally cautioned the ancient people of God against...

...Christian's breast, it stops them short with the needful and sharp rebuke, " Who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now,...dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?" They, therefore, who are the favoured objects of distinguishing love, and who look for salvation by...

...qualities as by no means of his own creation ; but always to bear in mind the Apostle's words, " what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? Now, if thou...why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it ?" Here, man has no resource for pride : he sees that he has nothing of his own ; that he can do nothing...

...Legal Assessments for the Support of the Poor. " Who maketh thee to differ from another ? or, what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? Now, if thou...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it ? Now ye are full ! now ye are rich ! Ye have reigned as kings without us." — PAUL. " The distresses...

...brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos, for your sakes, that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written,...no one of you be puffed up for one against another. For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive ? now,...

...brethren, 1 havem a figure transferred to myself, and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one again 5 ' another. TIT. iii. 13: Bring Zenas the lawyer and Apollo' on their journey. f RoM. xii. 11:...

...brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself, and to Apollos, for your sakes : that you might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be pufted up for one against anoiher. Acts xii. 22. And the people иave a shout, saying, It is the voice...

...mercy has enabled to shine as lights before their fellow men, for thankfulness and deep humility ? Who maketh thee to differ from another? And what hast...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it ? These ferocious pirates would burn a house and its inhabitants together ; or, after having slain...