 | Richard Baxter - 1761 - 140 pagine
...craftier than others for this World, but wifer to Salvation, and more holy and heavenly. The Children of this World are in their Generation wifer than the Children of Light. Heavenly-mindednefs is the fpecial Work of the Spirit.- -In producing this Change the Spirit tvercomes... | |
 | William Warburton - 1765 - 482 pagine
...Church. The Jews too maintain it with equal obftinacy, but not with equal indifcretion ; the Children of this world are, in their generation, wifer than the Children of light " ; their fatal adherence to their long abolifhed Rites depending altogether upon this fmgle prejudice,... | |
 | 1765 - 500 pagine
...fourfcore. And the lord commended the unjuft fteward, becaufe he had done wifely: for the children of this world are in their generation wifer than the children of light. And I fay unto you, Make to yourfelves friends, of the mammon of unrighteoufnefs; that when ye fail,... | |
 | John Leland - 1769 - 536 pagine
...7. Our Lord's Obiervation upon this is, that the unjijl Steward had afled wifely j for thf Children of this World are in their (generation 'wifer than the Children of Light , Ver. 8. /. e. they generally take more proper Meafures for fecuring and making Provifion for their... | |
 | John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1772 - 410 pagine
...namely, that of the. unjuft jieward, ufeth a proverbial fpeech juft in the fame. manner : The children of this world are in their generation wifer than the children of light ; which is only a wife obfervation that is generally true, and in many refpects, but not abfolutely... | |
 | 1788 - 598 pagine
...fourfcore. 8 And the lord commended the. unjuft fteward, becaufe. he had done wifely : far the children of this world are. in their generation wifer than the children of light. 9' And I fey unto you, Make to yourfelves friends of the mammon of unrighteoufnefs, that when ye fail,... | |
 | John Chapman (archdeacon of Bath.) - 1790 - 664 pagine
...SERMON XVII. This is the whole of the parable ; upon which our Saviour forms the obfervation in my text, that " The Children of this World are in their generation wifer than the Children of Light." The truth is, the end of this allufion was to upraid thofe who pretend to Religion, and the expectation... | |
 | William Martin Trinder - 1793 - 312 pagine
...'world are, in their generation, wifer than the children of light. THE pofitive aflertion in the text, that " the children of this world are, in their generation, wifer than the children of light," is fo very evident, that we need but to look upon the characters of mankind ,as they appear before... | |
 | George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1794 - 426 pagine
...deduced from the examples frequently fet us by the men of the world. Our blefled mafter has obferved, that " the children of this world are in their " generation wifer than the children of " light." It may be faid, with equal truth, that they have generally more zeal, more D is c. fortitude, more... | |
 | George Horne - 1794 - 416 pagine
...deduced from the examples frequently fet us by the men of the world. Our blefled mafter has obferved, that " the children of this world are in their " generation wifer than the children pf " light." It may be faid, with equal truth, that they have generally more zeal, more D is c, fortitude,... | |
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And the lord commended the unjuft fteward, becaufe he had done wifely: for the children of this world are in their generation wifer than the children of light. 
