...But not only so ; the plain teaching of Scripture respecting the question of slavery is this — " Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. Art thou called being a slave ? Care not for it : but if thou mayeet be made free, use it rather." In the...

...nothing availeth, but faith that work"ethbylove;" — " nothing" availeth but a new crea" ture." — " Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision " is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of " God1." According to the view given above, these several propositions perfectly coincide. The new...

...reuncircumcised ; is any called in uncircumcision ? let him not become circumcised. 19 Cifcumcisiqn is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the 1 8 Is any man called being circumcised? let him not become joiced not...

...the emphatic words of the Apostle, laid down as a gene• ral principle, and illustrated in detail, " Let every man abide * in the same calling wherein he was called ;" considering, in a * word, that change is really the characteristic of error, and un' alterableness...

...Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. 21 Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather....

...to nought things that are ; that no flesh should glory in his presence." 1 Cor. i. 27, 28, 29. — " Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." 1 Cor. vii. 20. — The carnation should not wish to be the tulip, the finger an eye, nor the weak...

...Gen. iv. 2. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but t'ain was a tiller of the ground, 1 Cor. viii. 20, 24. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called : Brethren, let every man wherein he is called, therein abide with God. 2. By a mock-rate care in our...

...become uncircumcised. Hath any man been called in uncircumcision ? let him not become circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing; but the keeping of the commandments of God is every 20 thing. Let every one remain in that calling wherein he 21 was called. Wast thou called...

...the charge of him, who, next under the Almighty, had the marshalling of the Church of the Gentiles ; Let every man abide in the same calling, •wherein he was called ; 1 Cor. vii. 20. Perhaps there may be a better head for policy, upon plebeian shoulders, than the...

...exhortation." 1 Cor. xii. 29. " Are all apostles ? Are all prophets ? Are all teachers ?" I Cor. vii. 20. " Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called." 1 Thes. iv. 11. " And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with• your...