 | John Flavel - 1671 - 576 pàgines
...such a command Christ received to die for us, as himself tells us, "I lay down my life of myself; I have power to lay it down, and power to take it again : this commandment have I received of my Father." John, 10 : 18. So that it was an act of obedience... | |
 | James Moody - 1752 - 224 pàgines
...corruption ; he having, indeed, life in Jiim' " felf, according to his own mod gracious . " laying, !-no man .taketh my life from me ; " I have power to lay it down, and I have " power to take it up." ** They contain, alfo,1 our Saviour's entire " refignation of himfelf... | |
 | John Farquhar (minister at Nigg.) - 1792 - 464 pàgines
...native fuperiority of mind, and his unlimited fubmiffion to his father's will. Thus he tells us himfelf. No man taketh my life from me\ I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again i. And he who could Z have * Johax. it. have obtained more than twelve... | |
 | 1806 - 662 pàgines
...up the ghost 1 Then was fulfilled his own saying, " I lay down my lite ; no man taketh it fnvn me: 1 have power to lay it down, and power to take it again." His death was not inconsequence of weakness, or of pain. To represent Christ as languishing to death... | |
 | Lorenzo Dow - 1814 - 666 pàgines
...us to God. Ciod so loved the world, He sent His son, that the world thro' Him mig-ht be SAVED. T^o man TAKETH my life from me ; — I have power to lay it down, and to take it again— Greater tors lhan this hath ro man, than that he lay down his life for his... | |
 | sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 484 pàgines
...willingly, as his own words assure us, Nn man taketh away my life from me, but I lay it down myself; I have power to lay it down, and power to take it again. (John, x. 18.) But this relates only to the merciful condescension of our Saviour's sacrifice, in order... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pàgines
...delegated" I hid quoted the Saviour's declaration, John x. 18, <• I lay down my life of myself. I have power to lay it down, and power to take it again." •• AMICES" says (page 434,) he did not lay it down" ef himself," but by power " given" to him,... | |
 | 1826 - 664 pàgines
...yet come," John viii. 20. The amount of the examples is what he tells us: That " no man can take away my life from me: I have power to lay it down, and power to take it again," chap. x. 18. And to this you may add, his assurance of help from above, if ever he desired it: But... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - 1828 - 464 pàgines
...which he bowed to this appointment of God, and to the cheerful triumph even with which he hailed it, " No man taketh my life from me. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again." This, however, merely expressed the perfect freedom from all... | |
 | John Reeve - 1832 - 700 pàgines
...live for evermore. Again, it is written in St. John, 1 lay down my Life of myfelf, no Man takes it from me : I have Power to lay it down, and Power to take it again : Cbriji therefore died, and rofe again, and revived, that be might be Lord both of the Dead and the... | |
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No man taketh my life from me. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. 
