...in hunger and • ' thirst ; in fastings often ; in cold and nakedness," &c. (2 Cor. xi. 27, &c.) He was "made all things to all men, " that he might by all means save some :" (1 Cor. ix. 22.) he took pleasure " in infirmities, in reproaches, in " necessities, in persecutions,...

...men were before him, that he perceived could not bear more spiritual and sublimated truths. He became all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. His heart was of a right scripture latitude, stood fair and open for any good, but no evil. All sorts...

...cannot be suspected of such a compromising and fearful spirit ; and yet he did not hesitate to become "all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." Our first reformers cannot be charged fat least not, consistently, by churchmen) with a timid arid...

...says : " Christ sent me NOT to baptize." Thus Paul, in the infant state of the Christian Church, " was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." Yet it was only a very few years after, that be expressed his full and decided conviction of the uttter...

...might gain them that are without law. To the weak he became as weak, that he might gain the weak : he was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. And this he did for the gospel's sake (I Cor. ix. 20 — 23.) At this time, be it remembered, he saith,...

...would not have wandered from city to city, a thing for lewd fellows to stone and whip — and been " made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some" ! Had he fully understood that not a son of Adam is in danger of damnation, he would not, for the space...

...this epistle be St Paul's, it but exemplifies his own declaration to the Corinthians, that he " became all " things to all men, that he might by all means save some" (a). 3. Again, he speaks of Timatheus as his friend and companion by the familiar term of "br$-> ther,"...

...suffered from them ; yet he suffers all things for the elect's sake. He labours abundantly; he becomes all things to all men, that he might by all means save some, 1 Cor. ix. 22. What importunate beseechings are his Epistles filled with ! he seems to besiege souls...

...proselytes of righteoumeis. — See p. 67, note. sacrificed everything to charity, but truth. He became ' all things to all men ;' that he ' might by all means save some.' To the Jews he ' became as a Jew ;' that he ' might gain the Jews;' ' to them that are without law,...

...that time, we may be free from care, and have no sins to forsake. It is not so. As St. Paul " became all things to all men, that he might by all means save some;" so God is pleased to make use of different methods for the reclaiming of mankind, being not willing...