 There is a bad taste in the language of sermons evinced by a constant repetition of the same scriptural phrases, which, perhaps, were used with great judgment two hundred years ago, but are now become so trite that they may, without any great detriment,...  Sermons - Page xviiiby Sydney Smith - 1801Full view - About this book
 | 1802 - 570 pages
...same scriptural phrases, used, perhaps, with great judgment two hundred years a.go, but now become so trite that they may, without any great detriment, be exchanged for others ; and farther, the very ungraceful manner in which they are delivered.' On this last topic, Mr. Smith... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 604 pages
...heart, and being renewed in the spirit of the mind, are the same thing with that which is called " putting off the OLD MAN, and putting on the NEW MAN." The expressions are equivalent ; and the representations are plainly of the same thing. When Christ speaks... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 662 pages
...heart, and being renewed in the spirit of the mind, these are the same thing with that which is called putting off the old man, and putting on the new man. ) The expressions are equivalent ; and the representations are plainly of the same thing. When Christ speaks... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 692 pages
...heart, and being renewed in the spirit of the mind, these are the same thing with that which is called putting off the old man, and putting on the new man. The expressions are equivalent ; and the representations are plainly of the same thing. When Christ speaks... | |
 | Sydney Smith, Lady Saba Holland Holland - 1855 - 390 pages
...phrases, which perhaps were used with great judgI.— C ment two hundred years ago, but are now become so (trite that they may, without any great detriment,...on the new man,' 'The one thing needful,' 'The Lord hath set up his candlestick,' 'The armor of righteousness,' etc. etc. etc. etc. The sacred Scriptures... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pages
...phrases, which, perhaps, were used with great judgment two hundred years ago, but are now become so trite that they may, without any great detriment,...the new man," " The one thing needful," " The Lord hath set up his candlestick," " The armour of righteousness," etc., etc., etc., etc. The sacred Scriptures... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 588 pages
...phrases, which, perhaps, «ere need with great judgment two hundred years ago, but are now become so trite that they may without any great detriment be...Putting on the new man/ ' The one thing needful,' ' The armor of righteousness,' Sec." Here you have it, reader. The word of God transferred into preaching... | |
 | Charles Hodge - Bible - 1856 - 316 pages
...dying to sin, or mortification of the flesh, and living to righteousness ; or, as it is here expressed, putting off the old man and putting on the new man. The obvious allusion is to a change of clothing. To put off is to renounce, to remove from us, as garments... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1856 - 668 pages
...heart, and being renewed in the spirit of the mind, these are the same thing with that which is called putting off the old man, and putting on the new man. The expressions are equivalent ; and the representations are plainly of the same thing. When Christ speaks... | |
 | Charles Hodge - 1860 - 408 pages
...dying to sin, or mortification of the flesh, and living to righteousness; or as it is here expressed, putting off the old man and putting on the new man. The obvious allusion is to a change of clothing. To put off, is to renounce, to remove from us, as garments... | |
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