...and advice of the apostle Paul, (than whom no man was better acquainted with human nature,) "becoming all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." No person, however, could charge him with dissimulation. His temper naturally was rather unbending...

...gain them that were without law ; who to the weak became as weak, that he might gain the weak ; who was made all things to all men that he might by all means save some ;" — you have been enabled to condescend to the lowly condition of uncivilized men, to dwell among...

...Against this spirit let us place the large-minded principle of the apostle, that he habitually became " all things to all men, that he might by all means save some "; and keep clearly before our minds the distinction between the outward forms in which, from age to...

...Epistle, " that he had made himself servant unto all, that he might gain the more souls to Christ; that he was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." But here is the excellence of Christian compliance, that it regards the favour of men, not as an end,...

...in." In these opposite courses, his moving principle was expediency. He was, as he himself tells us " all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." Nor this upon matters of merely trivial religious importance, but on one which, he felt, justified...

...gam, say. His practice here is agreeable to what he saith of himself, 1 Cor ix. 22, " That he became s the language of every true saint of your acquaintance to y He not only to the weak became as weak, that he might gain the weak; W to the wise he became as wise,...

...them that were without law ; to the weak, lie became as weak, that he might gain the weak : he was all things to all men, that he might by all means save some. This judicious management it is our bounden duty to study, for the edification of those committed to...

...differ as widely from mere official advice or remonstrance, as the tender counsel of a loving father things to all men, that he might by all means save some;" always on the watch for opportunities of seasonably interposing the great truths and warnings of the...

...disposition, which our great apostle rec»mrnends by his own example, where he tells us that he " became all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." But upon impartial examination, the thing perhaps will be found not so unreasonable, as at first sight...

...ignorance. St. Paul showed, that he, as well as St. John, had a deep conviction of this truth, when " he was made all things to all men, that he might by all means save some." * And a wise uninspired teacher will ever act like these two wise Apostles, first probing deep to find...