...permit, endeavours *"•__ /.__• turn them into a good channel, and be• comes, like the apoftle, all things to all men, that he may by all means gain some *. He poflefles, thus, a powerful inftrument for the execution, of any ufeful fcheme, whether private or...

...; especially to anxious sinners, who come to converse with him concerning their salvation. He will become all things to all men, that he may by all means gain some. He will reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and doctrine, and study to approve himself unto...

...most influential sense, constrained in all he purposes and does by the love of Christ, and willing to become all things to all men, that he may by all means save some. What a stupendous field lies before such a man. What heights he has to scale, what depths...

...tolerant and forbearing towards those who are in error, great or small, he treats as a compromise to truth — ' not to strive, but to be gentle to all...(differing, as men ever will do, in opinion) it would be a sceue of furious and interminable contenlion. And we cannot think that all of these would be entitled...

...to the poor. He is the servant, equally, of all, and there is no respect of persons. It is his duty to become all things to all men, that he may by all means save some. " Hence arises a motive, additional to every other, for the minister of religion being a...

...to the circumstances of different persons amongst his hearers,—must, in this sense as in others, become all things to all men, that he may by all means save some. It may be that, while one is roused to the pursuit of holiness by the general view of the...

...; — he must be ready to sacrifice all personal pride and worldly ambition ; — he must be ready to become " all things to all men," that he may " by all means save some ;"2 — he must have "counted the cost" before accepting the service ; — he must be content...

...; — he must be ready to sacrifice all personal pride and worldly ambition ; — he must be ready to become " all things to all men," that he may " by all means save some;"2 — he must have "counted the cost" before accepting the service ; — he must be content...

...especially with sailors, our Reader has need to be " crafty " — to make himself "servant unto all" — to become "all things to all men," that he may " by all means save some." Thus we find him one day holding a conversation with two chief mates, who had come to ask...

...ready to give his very life for the flock ; still more to give up all that earth calls good and great ; to become all things to all men, that he may, by all means, save some. 2. Another trait in the character of Christ, the good shepherd, he has presented in these...