 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1828 - 620 pages
...you be not brought under the power of such things, which otherwise are lawful enough in the use. " All things are lawful for me ; but I will not be brought under the power of any ;" said St. PauL And to be perpetually longing, and impatiently desirous of any thing, so that a man... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...and by the Spirit of our God. 'All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : 12 all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God shall 13 destroy both it and them.' Now the body... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1831 - 686 pages
...same apostle said in another place, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any thing," 1 Cor. vi. 12. To which he immediately subjoins these words, "Meat for th*> belly, and the... | |
 | John Bird Sumner (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1831 - 722 pages
...Christians, and " deny himself" in some thing every day ; on the principle of the apostle, where he says. "All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any:" I will not make them necessary to me. But this would be a matter between himself and God; his nearest... | |
 | Samuel Hoole - 1833 - 340 pages
...the words of the same apostle, " All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient."—" All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any." Many things in themselves, abstractedly considered, may be perfectly innocent, which, in their effects... | |
 | John Fletcher - Methodist Church - 1833 - 686 pages
...external objects, Paul spake like a heretical free wilier when he said, " All things [indifferent] are lawful for me ; but I will not be brought under the power of any." How foolish was this saying, if he could "no more help being brought under the irresistible power of... | |
 | 1834 - 406 pages
...and by the Spirit of our God. 12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for shall destroy meats : but God both it and them. Wf Now the... | |
 | Samuel Lee - 1835 - 202 pages
...this D principle laid down, viz. " All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any." By which I understand the apostle to say that the liberty with which Christ had made him free, had... | |
 | Richard Parkinson (D.D.) - 1835 - 448 pages
...it, he adds a clause of great restraint : All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. All things are lawful, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful, but all things edify... | |
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All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient : all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any. 
