...miserable state into so glorious a state is owing only to free and sovereign grace. 1 Cor. iv. 7. " Who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast...why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it ?" 2. Hence we may learn the folly of those that are cold and slack in seeking salvation, seeing that...

...looking to Christ ? Alas ! / have ; — but let us attend to that reproof of St. Paul : — ' Who made thee to differ from another ? and what hast thou that...why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it ?' May the Lord pnable us to look simply to Jesus in all things ! Wishing you every blessing that a...

...makes, there is no respect wherein the elect are not among the common multitude of mankind. 1 Cor. iv. 7. " For who maketh thee to differ from another ?...didst not receive? now, if thou didst receive it, wby dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?" 1 Cor. vi. 11. "And such were some of you ;...

...should humble you. For, 1. They are from God, and not yourselves. " For who maketh thee to differ? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now...thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou didst not receive it ?" 1 Cor. iv. 7. 2. You received them not for yourselves, but for God ; and therefore...

...as when it shows itself here. The Christian will say to himself, in the words of the apostle Paul, " For who maketh thee to differ from another ? and what...thou didst not receive ? Now, if thou didst receive, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it ?" I cannot help also observing here, that every...

...brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to A poll-is, for your sakes, that ye might learn not to think of men above that which is written, that...one of you be puffed up for one against another." It seems that it was not Paul and A polios particularly that the Corinthians were divided about ; but...

...should humble you. For, 1. They are from God, and not yourselves. " For who maketh thee to differ? And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now...thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou didst not receive it?" 1 Cor. iv. 7. 2. You received them not for yourselves, but for God ; and therefore...

...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,...why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received iff (1) Paul has spoken of himself and Apollos so that the readers might apply the lesson to themselves....

...except it were given him from heaven' (Jn. 3:27). Also in the first Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians: 'And what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?' (1 Cor. 4:7). Also in the first of Kings: 'Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding...

...of God. neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. (Rom. 8. 7, 8); For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what...dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? (1 Cor. 4. 7). extensive survey, the wisest man came to the conclusion that to fear God and keep His...