...peculiar and emphatic manner the language of the Apostle, (1 Cor. viii. 13.) ' Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth.' Thus did he become ' all things to all men, that he might by all means save some/ " For a few of the...

...things to all men, if by any means he might save some. We hear him at one time say — "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth lest I make my brother to offend. And at another time when he was besought not tog.0 up to Jerusalem,...

...neighborhood in which they live. What a noble spirit dictated the resolution, " Wherefore if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." And howfar did Ezra carry the delicacy of his religious zeal ! There...

...SERMON, XXXIX. .. . , THE ENLIGHTENED CONSCIENCE UNBENDING. 1. Corinthians, viii. 13. If muat maka my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth. IN the early establishment of Christianity, it became necessary to discriminate between those customs,...

...partake of it, he ought for their sakes to abstain from eating. " Wherefore," he says, " if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make, my brother to offend." (1 Cor. 8. 13.) It is on this principle I conclude that the collection...

...under some commandment of the moral law. In which case Paul says, (1 Cor. viii. 13,) " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth." It was a thing indifferent, whether Paul did eat flesh or not ; but when offence was like to follow...

...liberty be a stumbling-block tq others : to bear in mind the sentence of the Apostle. " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend6" Again, as to the extraordinary gifts of the Spirit — long as these...

...nothing unclean in itself," with the same breath, and in same tone, he declared, " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Hence the maxim by which he regulated his conduct in such matters...

...headlong down the precipice of danger. Let us rather remember the words of the apostle, " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." (1 Cor. viii. 13.) It is no easy achievement for ministers, in their...

...nothing unclean in itself," with the same breath, and in same tone, he declared, " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend." Hence the maxim by which he regulated his conduct in such matters...