| Thomas Dick - 1840 - 326 pages
...holy fortitude, and of non-conformity to the world, pervaded the minds of the disciples of Jesus, and the " lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life," were considered as unworthy the pursuit of those who accounted themselves " strangers and pilgrims... | |
| Frederic Adolphus Krummacher, John Willison Ferguson - 1841 - 224 pages
...which the children of light have also to struggle — the worshiping of self, and of the world, — the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. These more refined idolatries are not less sinful, though less easily detected, than the grossest idolatry... | |
| Henry Stebbing - Church history - 1842 - 516 pages
...appearance of evil, and disposing his life to a strict endeavour to resist the love of the world, ' the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life.' Supposing that this rule be well established, it must surely be difficult to understand how any one... | |
| James Buchanan - Holy Spirit - 1842 - 552 pages
...and hence he was ungodly, as having no supreme affection for God, and subject to worldly lusts — " the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life." These lusts are not eradicated by conversion ; they may long continue to be to the believer what the... | |
| Friedrich August G. Tholuck - 1842 - 350 pages
...and perfection. This also the Apostle John well considered when he comprehended all sin under th« lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. VOL. II. U ID this way, finally, it is shown, that not only the objective communication of the Redeemer's... | |
| Andrew Reed - Evangelistic work - 1843 - 334 pages
...separation from the world. Nothing is more clear than that the world, and all that is in the world — the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life — are hostile to genuine religion. Religion, therefore, can only hope to act with power, as she keeps... | |
| Protestant association - 1843 - 778 pages
...imaginations gratified with images, both actual and ideal, of things calculated abundantly to minister to the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life ; and every class finds something when once the Bible is removed, or private judgment superseded by... | |
| Universalism - 1844 - 712 pages
...your warfare is accomplished, your iniquity is pardoned. You, who are lovers of pleasure, pursuing the lust of • the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life, as the highest, chiefest guod. Wherefore will you spend your money for that which • is nought, and... | |
| James Flint - Youth - 1844 - 354 pages
...of the poets and novelists ;— that over refinement and softness and luxury,—in holier language, the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life are not of the Father, but of the world ; and the world passeth away, and the lust thereof ; but he... | |
| Robert Leighton (Abp. of Glasgow), James Aikman - Theology - 1844 - 758 pages
...compli. incuts ; and a world of those in all the world are these thorns, and they overspread all. " The lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life." And for how long is all the advantage and delight of these ? Alas ! that so poor things should prejudice... | |
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