 | 1810 - 480 pàgines
...any animal function. We cannot think a good thought uninfluenced by this grace; for Scripture says, "We are not sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as of ourselves, but all our sufficiency is of God," 2 Cor. iii. 5. We cannot speak a good word; for the same authority... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 488 pàgines
...fleshly tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have •we through Christ to Godward : - 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves : but our sufficiency i» of God. 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of... | |
 | Joseph Field - 1811 - 356 pàgines
...drink ?" yet it ought to be remembered,. that power, strictly speaking, does not reside in creatures. " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but all our sufficiency is of God." A creature can originate nothing. " The way of man is not in himself.... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1811 - 528 pàgines
...neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." 1 Cor. ii. 14. " Not that we are sufficient of OURSELVES, to think any thing, as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." 2 Cor. iii. 5. " For it is God, which woiketh in you, both to .will and to do, of his good... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pàgines
...the Spirit of God will convince the sinner that he hath not power even to think. " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God," 2 Cor. iii. 5. When this working arm fails us help is at hand, for Christ's strength is made... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1812 - 420 pàgines
...the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue are from the Lord." The apostle acknowledges, "that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." This all good men believe to be true, when they ask God to give them grace, and assist them... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1812 - 354 pàgines
...born. Jf these two great men had lived long enough to be acquainted with St. Paul's doctrine, that we are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, and the reasons he gives for it, they had altered their opinion. These are some of the most... | |
 | John Buckworth - 1812 - 340 pàgines
...God exclaimed, " Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be the praise." And again — " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." Now, if the Almighty is thus determined to stain the pride of human glory, and to have "grace,... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - 1812 - 378 pàgines
...thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. • The WEAKNESS and INSUFFICIENCY of MAN. (i) We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. (£) We have no might, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee, Q Lord. We could... | |
 | Thomas Boston - 1812 - 512 pàgines
...both to will and to do of his good pleasure.' Rom. v. 6. ' We are without strength.' 2 Cor. iii. 5. ' We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves : but our sufficiency is of God.' Men by nature are dead spiritually ' dead in trespasses and sins,' Eph. ii. 1. If they will... | |
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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. 
