| John Wesley - Methodism - 1811 - 454 pages
...ends. But a Christian may go abundantly farther ; his end in all his labour is, to please God; to do, not his own will, but the will of him that sent him into the world : for this very purpose, to do the will of God on earth, as angels do in heaven. He... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 446 pages
...and happy ; as every thinking mind (perhaps from some implicit remembrance of what it originally was) longs to be. It finishes all, by restoring the due...not his own will, but the will of him that sent him. 30. But perhaps by reason you mean, the faculty of reasoning, of inferring one thing from another.... | |
| Youth's instructor - 1822 - 488 pages
...remember that this spirit of cheerful labour is only to be acquired in the school of CHRIST ; who "did not his own will but the will of Him that sent him ; " yea, whose "meat and drink" it was " to do the will of his Father, and to finish his work." =___=_==__... | |
| Theology - 1824 - 400 pages
...evely injunction, which his Father laid upon him. This perfect obedience demonstrated, that he sought not his own will, but the will of him, that sent him. But, 4. There was another way, in which Christ more literally and emphatically expressed his self denying... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1827 - 590 pages
...and happy, as every thinking mind (perhaps from some implicit remembrance of what it originally was) longs to be. It finishes all, by restoring the due...not his own will, but the will of him that sent him. 30. But perhaps by reason you mean, the faculty of reasoning, of inferring one thing from another.... | |
| John Wesley - Methodism - 1829 - 544 pages
...woman " who knew no sin," who, from his birth to his death, did "all things well;" doing continually " not his own will, but the will of Him that sent him." 6. After all, " behold the Lamb of God, taking away the sin of the world ! " This was a more glorious... | |
| John Wesley - Methodist Church - 1830 - 568 pages
..."who knew no sin," who, from his birth to his death", did " all things well," doing continually, " not his own will, but the will of him that sent him." 6. After all, " Behold the Lamb of God, taking- away the sin of the world !" This was a more glorious... | |
| Edward Irving - 1831 - 376 pages
...life and power, as a sacrificer of himself, and did ever sacrifice himself, speaking not his own word, doing not his own will, but the will of him that sent him. He himself ever maketh the avowal of another will which he might have done, of another word which he... | |
| 1832 - 468 pages
...our nature, as very man, glorified his heavenly Father, by shewing perfect obedience and holiness, doing not his own will, but the will of him that sent him ; and this done, he appeals to his Father, saying, " Now, O Father, glorify me with thine ownself with... | |
| Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...was constant; he became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross, Phil. 2:8. — " He sought heavens, for the Lotd hath done it; shout ye lower (a John 5:30. There was a command, that the Father had on Christ from all eternity, " O my Son, my only... | |
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