 | 1821 - 632 pàgines
...with the word of truth," James i. 18. And ministers of the gospel are called spiritual fathers ; " for though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers, for in Christ I have begotten you through the gospel." The same he says of his son Onesimus, whom he had " begotten... | |
 | John Wesley - 1813 - 470 pàgines
...this day. I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children 15 1 warn you» For if ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for I have begotten 16 you in Christ Jesus through the Gospel. I beseech you, 17 therefore, be ye followers... | |
 | Edward Barwick - 1813 - 402 pàgines
...iv. 15.) where he says, " Although ye have ten thousand instructors in Chrisf, yet ye have notmany fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me," (I Cor. iv. 19.) and "Am I not an apostle ? if I am... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pàgines
...and are the off-seouring of all things unto this day. 15 For though ye have tec thousand instruetors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotteu you through the Gospel. 16 Wherefore, I beseeeh you, he ye followers of me. 17 For this eause... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1879 - 622 pàgines
...still so called for and urgently needed, and difficult to get. Yet though, as the apostle again says, " ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers." And it is this that makes us falter and hesitate ; yea, even when most we feel the burden of the Lord... | |
 | 1815 - 412 pàgines
...apostle Paul virtually ascribes paternity, or fatherhood, to Christ, when he •ays to the Corinthians, " For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ...yet have ye not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus have I begotten you through the gospel." All the influence which the apostle here claims, he resolves... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pàgines
...day. 14. I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons, I admonish you. 15. Fortho' ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many spiritual fathers; for in Christ Jesus 1 have begotten you by the gospel. 16. Wherefore, I beseecli... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pàgines
...travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you." To the Corinthians he writes : " For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have...Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel." In the same sense, having been the instrument of his conversion to God, he calls Onesimus his " son, whom,"... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 544 pàgines
...etc rnal salvation they suppose God has made them the instruments: 1 Cor. iv. 15. " For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers : for in Christ Jesus, 1 have begotten you through the gospel." II. Now 1 am taking my leave of this people, I would apply... | |
 | Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet - 1818 - 292 pàgines
...what are these means ? Let the Scriptures answer. St. Paul, in writing to the Corinthians, says, " For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ,...Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel." St. James says, " Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits... | |
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For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers : for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 
