...To say, God hath revealed more to me than to you; or hath made me more holy and spiritual than you ; "Stand by thyself; come not near me; for I am holier than thou ;" Isa. Ixv. 5. This is, when pride speaketh it, most odious blasphemy ; to father 4he firstborn of...

...To say, God hath revealed more to me than to you; or hath made me more holy and spiritual than you ; "Stand by thyself; come not near me; for I am holier than thou ;" Isa. Ixv. 5. This is, when pride speaketh it, most odious blasphemy ; to father the firstborn of...

...ignorant man, or a wicked liver, he will not call him carnal wretch, or profane fellow; nor say, " stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou," Isa. 65: 5. (as some have said:) but he pitieth such a man, and prays for him; and in his heart he...

...snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought: 28 That say, Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nostrils, and fire all the day long. 29 Ye turn judgement to wormwood, and...

...ascribed to the Jews, by our philosophers, it received no countenance from the LAW, and is expressly condemned by the Almighty Author of it, when it betrayed...And lest this should be mistaken for the fruits of the inhospitable genius of the law, he takes care to inform us that these men were the rankest and...

...united. But if, where I find weakness of grace and involuntary failings of obedience, I shall say, Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou, Isa. Ixv. 5. how can I make other account, than that this pride shall be a smoke in the nostrils of...

...voluntary humility, and dissembled love, which swell the carnal mind with pride, and then they say, " Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou ;" " These, says God, area smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burneth all the day." Isaiah Ixv. -''....

...company of sinners, out of a singularity, and pride in their own purity, and say, with those in Esay, Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou". But, Bonus non est, qui malos tolerare non potest, says St. Augustine upon those words, Lilium inter...

...to treat with contempt all of a different sect. Their characteristic language to all others was, " Stand by thyself ; come not near me, for I am holier than thou." Our divine Saviour was not thus to be deceived. He judged by the heart, and not by the external appearance....

...company of sinners, out of a singularity, and pride in their own purity, and say, with those in Esay, Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than tltou". But, Bonus non est, qui malos tolerare non potest, says St. Augustine upon those words, Lilium...