...passage in Paul, whence our motto is taken. The whole passage (in 1 Cor. 7: 20 — 24) runs thus : (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 maycst be made free, use it rather....

...iheir partners be ineligious, he decides the question respecting servants, by this general principle. Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called. The Apostle never decides, as a case of conscience, a question with which nobody's conscience was troubled....

...reference whereto St. Paul doth prescribe, ' Every man as the Lord hath called him, so let him walk.' ' Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called :' let him so abide, as faithfully to prosecute the work, and discharge the duty of it ; the doingwhich...

...evident from his mnking the state of slavery an excepted case in his general rule, that every man should abide in the same calling wherein he was called. " Art thou called," says he, " being a servant," care not for it : but, if thou mayett be made free, use it rather." For...

...it is that loveth me1." Indeed without this, ALL our sentiments or professions are of no avail : " Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God"." u Gal. iii. 13. * Isai. xlv. 24, 25. y John xiv. 15. 1 John xiv. 21. a 1 Cor. vii. 19. When persons...

...shall enter into the kingdom of heaven ; but he that doeth the will of his Father which is in heaven. ' Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. * Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel ; I spake not to your fathers in the day that I brought...

...let him not become uncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision ? let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. Here the apostle proceeds to exhort the Corinthians to be content with the lot and condition which...

...Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love. Circumcision is nothing and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God." " For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us, that, denying...

...religious emotion, the importance of an ultimate object, to the neglect of that great principle that " circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God." While it is but candid to suppose that some are beguiled through the "good words and fair speeches"...

...become nncircumcised. Is any called in uncircumcision .' Let him not be circumcised. Circumcision ii nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of the commandments of God. 1 Cor. vii. 18, 19. There is neither Jew not Greek, there is neither bond nor free, tint is neither...