| George Burder - 1835 - 654 páginas
...the temple to pray, and with monstrous pride stood by himself, and said, " God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, nor even as this Publican;" and then he boasted of his good works. But God abhorred thisproud wretch, while he looked with compassion... | |
| Thomas Belsham - 1805 - 320 páginas
...'.•.-..;: t Such is the very candid judgment which Mr. W. forms of the moral and religious character of the Unitarians. How nearly refembling the temper...therefore " be the friend, and aflbciate, of publicans and " finners !" But, be it known to Mr. W. and to all who, like him, are difpofed to condemn their brethren... | |
| Benjamin Beddome - 1835 - 764 páginas
...than themselves. Such the Pharisee thought the Publican to be, and therefore says, " God, I thank thee I am not as other men are, nor even as this Publican;" and this is the case of many now: when conscience accuses them of being bad, they presently think of... | |
| John Henry Smith - 1844 - 46 páginas
...the temple to pray, he must needs trumpet his excellencies into the very ear of Deity ! " Thank God I am not as other men are, nor even as this publican "—This is his litany ! " I fast twice in the week : I give tythes of all I possess"—This is his... | |
| Plain sermons - 1846 - 636 páginas
...wretched habit of censoriousness, that he let it come into his very addresses to GOD ; " I thank THEE that I am not as other men are, nor even as this publican." Observe here also how this evil custom loses us entirely the blessing of the forgiveness of sins. The... | |
| Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1860 - 160 páginas
...sinner's God, and pride with regard to his poor fellowsinners in the world. " God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are nor even as this publican!" That is set forth to us as the language of arrogance and presumption, not of the lowly and modest but... | |
| George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 608 páginas
...presentation of the moral of the parable, called " the Pharisee and the Publican." " God I thank Thee, that I am not as other men are ; nor even as this Publican." And, again, " God be merciful to me a sinner." And, then, the contrast, and the application. " I tell... | |
| L. L. T. - 1866 - 298 páginas
...transgression ! Now, what is this comparison, after all, but the Pharisee's language ? " God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, nor even as this publican." But it was the publican, abashed, self-convicted, smitten in heart, who uttered a prayer for mercy,... | |
| Eliza Mumford - 1873 - 122 páginas
...am chief." Then he contrasted the acknowledgment with the boasting assertion of another Pharisee, " I am not as other men are, nor even as this publican." Maude Linden then sat in judgment on her own profession ; if the root of piety was self-abasement or... | |
| Henry Edward Manning - 1876 - 356 páginas
...a distance would not so much as lift up his eyes ; and the Pharisee said, ' God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, nor even as this publican. I give tithes of all that I possess, I fast twice in the week;' and so on. And the other beat upon... | |
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