 | Thomas Jackson - 1844 - 628 sidor
...or the increase of grace, or his proficiency in good life; But now he saith, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican: this includeth an acknowledgment, that all the perfection whereof until this very day he deemed himself... | |
 | Jane Eliza Leeson - 1847 - 256 sidor
...proud Pharisee who looked down upon the contrite-hearted Publican, and said, " God, I thank Thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this Publican;" for " his soul, which is lifted up, is not upright in him." But these things go together : " to do... | |
 | Aubrey De Vere (calling himself earl of Oxford.) - 1848 - 280 sidor
...lifting his hands up in worship, and giving thanks thus to that exacting divinity — himself: — " Lord ! I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this Celt. My granaries are enlarged : I am filled with marrow and fatness ;" and so to proceed ; " I hate... | |
 | James Foote - 1849 - 674 sidor
...individual, in a way that reflected severely on his character. "God, I thank thee," said he " that I am not as other men are," " or even as this publican." It does not appear that he knew anything of the private character of this man ; and, if he did not,... | |
 | Adolphe Louis F.T. Monod - 1849 - 412 sidor
...evermore 1 Will you not repudiate the presumptuous prayer of the Pharisee : " God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, ... or even as this publican," and fall upon your knees by the side of the poor heathen, to adopt his humble and successful prayer,—"... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 sidor
...flattering unction" of its own superiority, it is unwilling to lose the pleasure of the Pharisee's boast, " Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this sinner." 6tH REASON. — A man who has once fallen, shmes a strong proof »f weakness, that he can... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1854 - 812 sidor
...in no danger of using the language which the Pharisee did before God, — " God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican." At the same time, I see not why all who understandingly approve of Mi. M.'s book should not use this... | |
 | Rev. Henry Ives Bailey - 1857 - 870 sidor
...field. Dan. iv. 30, 31, 32. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican. — The ruler said, All these have I kept from my youth up. Now when Jesus heard these things, he said... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1859 - 808 sidor
...Publican's enormities, will not come nigh him, lest he should defile him with his beastly rags : ' the habitable part of his earth ; and my delights were But the poor Publican, alas for him, his fingers are not clean, nor can he tell how to make them so... | |
 | Few plain sermons - 1867 - 218 sidor
...from others, daring to bring his pride into the presence of God, and saving, "God I thank thee that I am not as other men are" — "or even as this Publican." The religion of Christ bids us never refuse what help we have in us to the sin-stricken. But even such... | |
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Lord, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, or even as this publican. 
