 | Nathanael Emmons - 1813 - 550 pàgines
...divine agency, in all their internal exercises as well as external actions. "Not that we are sufjicient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." He could not have asserted the doctrine of divine agency in human actions in plainer or stronger... | |
 | James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - 634 pàgines
...efforts of the preacher's ingenuity. Be not ashamed to acknowledge what it was Paul's glory to say, " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves^ but our sufficiency is of God." Look upward ! Contemplate with delight, the fulness that is in Christ. Let your soul, in fervent... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - 450 pàgines
...mediation of Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. SUCH trust have we thro' Christ to God-ward : not that we are sufficient of...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... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - 422 pàgines
...constantly dependent upon a divine influence for the continuation and growth of grace. He says, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." He says, "Now he which establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God, who... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1815 - 660 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pàgines
...rather 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... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - 606 pàgines
...guide. Paul shews its deficiency in the sight of the Lord in every part of our life, when he denies " that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves." (a) He does not speak of the will or the affections, but he also divests us of every good thought,... | |
 | William Hammond - 1816 - 320 pàgines
...of his regenerating himself? St. Paul gives us his judgment in this point 2 Cor. iii. 5. JVbi thai we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves : tut our sufficiency is of God. Was the apostle insufficient to think a good thought ? And are not... | |
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Godward: 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: for the letter killeth, but the spirit... 
