 | 1804 - 498 pages
...prayer. The Rev. Nathan Perkins, DD of West-Hartford, (Conn.) preached the sermon, from 2 Cor. iv. 5. " We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." The Rev. Coanrod Ten. Kick, of May field, (NY) made the consecrating prayer; during which Dr. Perkins,... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 364 pages
...inverted, and we may with equal justice ask, ** How shall we ** preach without a hearer?" Brethren, Ave preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus- sake; who, as St. Paul tells us, " has given some Apostles, ** and some Prophets, and some Evan** gelists,and... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the...Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded 'the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 680 pages
...testimony in the consciences of all that intimately knew them, and accurately observed them ; he adds, For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake * . Oh that every christian mimster, who in succeeding ages hath read these words, had been delivered... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 738 pages
...testimony in the consciences of all that intimately knew them, and accurately observed them ; he adds, For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake *. Oh that every Christian minister, who in succeeding ages hath read these words, had been delivered... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - Sermons, English - 1803 - 518 pages
...retnonftrances, muft be dii—f—i reded to the prefent welfare, and to the future falvation of their brethren. We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves, your servants, for Jesus' sake. Called to preach to you, my brethren of this congregation, I judge it not unprofitable, either to you... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the...Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the... | |
 | George Campbell - Church history - 1807 - 530 pages
...him, could he have had the assurance to address his Antiochians in the words of Paul above quoted, " We preach not " ourselves, but .Christ Jesus the Lord,...ourselves your " servants, for Jesus' sake •?" For is it not his predominant scope, in those letters, to preach himself and other ecclesiasticks, inculcating... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shme unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the...for Jesus' sake. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of... | |
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For God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 
