 | Richard Baxter - 1764 - 200 sidor
...Need of you. Let not your Heart imagine, what the Pharifee proudly fpoke, ' God I thank thee, that I am not as * other Men are, or even as this Publican (a).' Appear not before God with fuch Pharifaical Conceit of theWorthinefs of yourfelves, or yourWorfhip,... | |
 | George Lyon - 1794 - 424 sidor
...whofe attainments you regard as inferior to your own ? Is it the fecret language of your hearts, — I am not as other men are, or even as this publican ? In a word, are you fcvere in cenfuring the conduct of others ; while in the mean time, you allow... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1818 - 362 sidor
...acts of devotion, he could not abstain from speaking of him with contempt ; " God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this Publican." But God did not approve of these words. He did not despise the Publican. It is expressly said, *' This... | |
 | 1826 - 548 sidor
...committees, the bond, and free, which have appeared like the aspirations of the selfrighteous, ' I thank God I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.' It is a matter of accident with many persons, that they are not in the society of prisoners. Besides,... | |
 | Twenty plain and practical sermons - 1828 - 348 sidor
...and the Publican, who went up to the temple to pray. " God, I thank thee," said the Pharisee, " that I am not as other men " are ; or even as this Publican."* He thought it a sufficient testimony of his uprightness, that he could boldly compare his conduct with... | |
 | 1832 - 816 sidor
...to find new views, and new life, and new works ; but to find also, a lovely, never-failing charily towards others, towards those even whom we think mistaken...ungodliness. What, however, is unsanctified knowledge or unsanctified wisdom ? The most distinguished among men, either in the one or the other, stands like... | |
 | 1832 - 702 sidor
...feeling not very different, at least from that in which the Pharisee said, ' God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican.' Is it not manifest that except by the assumption of an arbitrary hypothesis of religious influences,... | |
 | 1833 - 618 sidor
...a prison's ward. It is pride which creates and nourishes the exultation, " God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican." It is pride which hardens the heart into uncharitableness, and which shuts the eye at those evidences,... | |
 | Henry Raper Slade - 1833 - 34 sidor
...— " Give place, I am more honourable than thou ; stand off", I am holier than thou." " Thank God, I am not as other men are, or even as this publican." It is a question with me whether the laying himself open to such conjectures is not more amazing and... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine, Donald Fraser - 1836 - 636 sidor
...say, " Stand by, for I am holier than thou ; " or, with the proud Pharisee, "God, 1 thank thec, that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican." No, he rather sinks in his own esteem, when he looks on others, as Agur did, Prov. xxx. 2. 3. It has... | |
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Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican. 
