| Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 622 pages
...subordination thereunto. You have the sum in the words of the Holy Ghost, "Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord," &c. (Jer. ix. 23, 24.) My next address must be to them whose names are written in heaven, and that... | |
| Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 612 pages
...subordination thereunto, lou have the sum in the words of the Holy Ghost, " Thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord," &c. (Jer. ix. 23, 24.) My next address must be to them whose names are written in heaven, and that... | |
| Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...be something, when he is nothing, less than nothing, and vanity. But, " thus saith the Lord, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth, for in these things I delight... | |
| Henry Erskine Head - Sermons, English - 1832 - 218 pages
...hearts, then we shall begin to discern the true object of our devotion. For thus saith the Lord. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and hnoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the... | |
| Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1832 - 330 pages
...that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. 6 Thus saith the Lord : Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom ; neither let the...riches ; but let him that glorieth, glory in this, That he knoweth me, that I am the Lord, which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness,... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 664 pages
...mentioned in the former clause. And we find the same distinction made by the Prophet Jeremiah : " Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...riches : but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he 835.] THE EXCELLENCY OF SPIRITUAL WISDOM. 363 understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord,... | |
| Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...holy indignation mock the proud policy and plans of the great men of the earth. He has said, " Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth ; for in these things I delight,... | |
| Jean Frédéric Ostervald - 1833 - 434 pages
...God, as these words of Jeremiah import, which are quoted by St. Paul, 1 Cor. i. and 2 Cor. x. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord. CHAPTER X. IN this chapter Jeremiah exhorts the Jews not to imitate the folly of those that worshipped... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 pages
...holy indignation mock the proud policy and plans of the great men of the earth. He has said, " Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...riches ; but let him that glorieth, glory in this, that he tinderstandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise loving-kindness, judgment,... | |
| Sermons - 1834 - 740 pages
...then, not only believe and assent to this truth, but live under its practical influence ; and let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the...in his riches ; but let him that glorieth glory in God. In the fourth place, your attention and mine is called in this psalm to the doctrine of redemption.... | |
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