 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pagine
...therefore failed in my endeavours. We that have Jong run the Christian race, feel thiit we have no power in ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God. Yet the apostle who said this, could also say, / can do all things through Christ that streiigtheneth... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pagine
...and are acted upon by a divine operation, in all their holy and virtuous exercises. Paul tells us, "We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." Solomon uses a similar mode of expression. "The preparations of the heart in man, and the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1815 - 660 pagine
...necessary part of our Christian wisdom, to keep our subordination to God, and dependence on him. " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God."(c) Without me, says Christ, ye can do not king. (d) It is next supposed, that they who seek... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1815 - 260 pagine
...ministers of the New Testament. Their language is, Who is sufficient for these things ? 2 Cor. ii. 10. We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, '2 Cor. iii. 5, 6. From a consciousness of personal inability, joined with a conviction of... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 pagine
...Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. SUCH trust have we thro' Christ to God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spi142... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 572 pagine
...thereof, cannot well be evaded ; and, indeed, were it otherwise, it could hardly be said, that rue are not sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as of ourselves ; which, though it be immediately applied to ministers, is certainly, by a parity of reason, applicable... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pagine
...than Tie Ep'utle г Cor. iii. 4. SUCH trust have we through Christ to God-ward : not that 5. we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing, as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able mi- 6. nisters of the new testament ; not of the letter (z), but... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pagine
...necessary part of our Christian wisdom, to keep our subordination to God, and dependence on him. " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." " Without me," says Christ, "ye can do nothing." — It is next supposed, that they who seek... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1817 - 294 pagine
...Spirit of the living God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit:... | |
 | 1817 - 590 pagine
...experience, kept this great man humble amidst the triumphs attending his labours : " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God. I laboured more abundantly than they all ; yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.... | |
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Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 
