 | James Gardiner - Sermon on the mount - 1720 - 448 pages
...mercy and companion are altogether neceflary in all our almf-giving. St. Paul, when he fays, * Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing j implies, that it is poflible for a man to give all his goods away to charitable ufes, and... | |
 | William Lupton - 1729 - 456 pages
...Necejfity of Good Works, as to lay the p roper Foundation, upon which they fhould be built. Though I beftow all my Goods to feed the poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing, $. 3. Charity, as the Principle of all our Thoughts and Deportment, is what he is labouring... | |
 | Thomas Chubb - Deism - 1740 - 194 pages
...fpring from, but do not, he makes ufe of the fame inftance, i Cor. xiii. 3. And though I be/low all my goods to feed the poor , and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. This, to appearance, is one of the higheft acts of benevolence; and yet when it is the offfpring... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1743 - 500 pages
...nothing, I Cor. xiii. 2. There follows in the next verfe an expreffion ftill more remarkable ; though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity \ it projiteth me nothing. From This paffage it appears, that the word Charity, in tne New Teftament, does... | |
 | Samuel Clarke - 1744 - 416 pages
...Without this Good and Chriftian Temper of Mind, no fingle Action is valuable in the Sight of God : Though I beftow all my Goods to feed the Poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing : That is, Almjgiving, or the Acl: of any other Virtue, if it proceeds only from fome accidental... | |
 | John Conybeare - Sermons - 1757 - 594 pages
...moft profufe profufe Alms-giving may be owing to indirect Caufes, when he tells us, Though I give all my Goods to feed the Poor, and have not Charity, it profiteth me nothing [ver. j/j But, if this be the Cafe, how mall we be able to judge concerning the charitable... | |
 | Lord James Burnett Monboddo - Language and languages - 1787 - 526 pages
...is evident from the third verfe, where it is faid, ' That although I beftow all my goods to feed c the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me no' thing :' So that here love is fet above all the chriflian From this principle of beauty, which he has made the foundation, as we have feen, VOL. IV.... | |
 | Septimus Hodson - Christianity - 1792 - 238 pages
...which mould put us upon a very ferious enquiry into the nature and value of our benevolence; " Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing:" /. e. " If I have not a root and principle of love to God in my heart, that carrieth me out... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1805 - 538 pages
...charity docs not confift in giving to the poor, is evident from what the apoftle Paul obferves : " Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Here is a plain intimation, that a perfon may manifeft great kindnefs to the poor, while... | |
 | Alexander Proudfit - Salvation - 1804 - 218 pages
...may give much of their goods to God and to the faints, as Ananias, if not all their goods ; *' Though I beftow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." Yea, 7. It is not impoffible for fomefuch, being ftraitly engaged in their credit, to " give... | |
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And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
