 the graver departments of divinity and philosophy; but we must ever contend for that great Christian principle, " Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God." Rigid as this principle may at first sight appear, it is not so...  The Port Folio - Page 2361822Full view - About this book
 | John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1748 - 440 pages
...and then from all this difcourfe, the Apoftle eilablifheth this general rule in the text, Wherefore whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of Gud. To which is parallel that other text, i Pet. iv. n. That God in all things may be glorified.... | |
 | Samuel Walker - 1759 - 340 pages
...his Service •, nor can any one be at a wider Diftance than you, from what the Apoftle injoins us, Whether ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the Glory of God(m}. View yourfelf, and the Chriftian together. He defigns GOD'S Glory in his general Conduct... | |
 | Moses Dickinson - Governors - 1774 - 44 pages
...employed in. His glory must be the governing end of our lives. Whether, therefore, (says the Apostle). ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do; do all to the glory of Qod. But men cannot sincerely aim at the glory of God. in any one thing that they do, unless they... | |
 | John Hampson - Methodism - 1791 - 254 pages
...which he prefcribed for himfclf, and for all chriflians, is the fame which is laid down by St. Paul j " whether ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God." An excellent rule; but capable, like other general principles, of being wrefled and mifunderftood.... | |
 | William Woollcombe - 1798 - 356 pages
...our maker. I doubt not but many perfons hear with furprize fuch declarations of holy fcripture, as whether ye eat or drink or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God—/. e. order your whole converfation of every kind wirfl a view to God and the promoting of... | |
 | William Woollcombe (Prebendary of Exeter.) - Sermons, English - 1798 - 554 pages
...our maker. I doubt not but many perfons hear with furprize fuch declarations of holy fcripture, as whether ye eat or drink or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God—/'. e. order your whole converfation of every kind with a view to God and the promoting of... | |
 | 1803 - 488 pages
...him the centre of their actions :—they aim and endeavour to comply with that apoilolic direftion, " Whether ye eat, or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God." I might obferve that the Chriftian lives in the exercife of grace ; for he is not (ftriftly... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1803 - 408 pages
...Being. By this difpofition and exercife of heart alone do they comply with the apoftolic command, " Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of'God. And that they who live, fhould not henceforth live unto themfelves, but unto Him who died for... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1804 - 828 pages
...Thou (halt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy foul, and and with all thy mind. Whether ye eat or drink, or whatever ye do, do all to the glory of God." We are commanded to do all things heartily as unto the Lord. But it is never pretended, that... | |
 | William Gilpin - Homiletical illustrations - 1804 - 466 pages
...intimately : by him the very hairs efysur head are all numbered. SERMON XVI. I CORINTHIANS, X. 31. WHETHER YE EAT OR DRINK, OR WHATEVER YE DO, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD. days Jhalt thou labeur, fays the commandment, and do all that thou haft to do, but the feventh... | |
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