| Jean Le Clerc - Bible - 1701 - 650 pages
...put it under a bufhel ; but on a candleftick, and it givcth light unto all that are in the houfc. 16 Let your light fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good works, and gloriiy your Father which i& in heaven. 1 7 Think not that' I am come to deftroy the law or the... | |
| Samuel Clarke - Bible - 1701 - 414 pages
...put it Under a buihel : but on a candleftick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the houfe. i6 Let your light fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good works,and glorifie your Father which is in heaven. withal fliaJl ye be corrected and amended ? Ye will... | |
| William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1710 - 410 pages
...His Service, 2 Cor. x. 5. 2 Tim. ii. 19. i S. Pet. ii. 5>, io, 11,12. S. MATT. ii * S. MATT. v. i6f Let your "Light fo fhine before Men, that they may fee your good Works , and glo-t rify your Father which is in Heaven. I. TT 7" HAT we are to underftand by Light ; VY namely,... | |
| Lewis Atterbury, Edward Yardley - Church of England - 1743 - 484 pages
...the'fupernumerary Branches of a prolific Family. Fa; SERMON IV. The Nature and Neceffity of good Works. MA TV 1 6. Let your Light fo fhine before Men, that they may fee your good Works^ and glorify your Father which is in Heaven. • *• * * . HEN our Saviour Chrijl was here upon Earth,... | |
| John Tillotson - Sermons, English - 1757 - 510 pages
...men may behold it, and give teftimony to it, and glorify G o r> upon that account ; Mat. v. 1 6. " Let your light " fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good " works, and glorify your FATHER which is hi ** heaven." Not that men mould make any oftenration of religion,... | |
| John Witherspoon, William Shenstone - Grace (Theology) - 1765 - 326 pages
...who then heard our Lord's difcourie, and now to all profeffing Chriftians ; and by the expreffion, " Let your light fo fhine " before men, that they may fee your good " works ;" that the holinefs and purity of their converfation mould be vifible and emin3ht ; that men, by obferving... | |
| 1765 - 506 pages
...Gofpel And I look for the refurredion of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen. Prieft. LET your light fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. S. Matt. 5. 1 6. Lay not up for yourfelves treafures upon... | |
| George Muir - Presbyterian Church - 1769 - 328 pages
...confidered this• as a very proper and probable rneanof falvation, when he faid to his difciples, " -Let your light fo fhine before men, that they " may fee your good works, and glorify your .,:-.• " Father " Father which is in heaven,"— As if he had fald " Walk worthy... | |
| John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1770 - 520 pages
...with the lips ? Pfal. 1. 23. Whofo offereth praife, glorified! me; or with the life;" Matth. v. 1 6. Let your light fo fhine before men, that they may fee your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Q^ 4. Wherein confifts the enjoyment of God ? . A. It confifts,... | |
| John Flavel - 1770 - 520 pages
...Chrift is the great patera of holinefs. Be ye examples of holinefs too, unto all that are about you. " Let your light fo fhine before men, that they " may fee your good work*," Matfh. v. i 6. As wicked men infectone another by their examples, and diffufe their poifrtn... | |
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