| John Gill - Sermons - 1778 - 648 pages
...his propheticoffice. And indeed, his being the only begotten. Son, was what qualified him for it: for "no man hath feen God at any. time ; the only begotten Son, " which is in the bofom of the Father, he hath declared him V Being the only begotten of the Father, and lying in his bofom, .and... | |
| Zachary Pearce - Sermons, English - 1778 - 416 pages
...given by Mofes, but grace and truth came by Jefus Chrijt. p. 209 VOL. I. b SERSERMON XII. JOH N I. 17. The law was given by Mofes, but grace and truth came by Jejus Chrift. p, 229 SERMON XIII. MATTHEW v. 17. Think not, that I am come to deflroy the law or the... | |
| Jean Claude - 1779 - 566 pages
...forafmuch 03 his capacity is finite and limited, If, for example, I were to preach from this text, The law was given by Mofes: but grace and truth came by Jefus thrift ; I would divide this text into two parts. The firft fhould regard the miniftry of the law;... | |
| Bible - 1788 - 598 pages
...before me : for he was before me. 1 6 And of his fulnefs have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Mofes, but grace and truth came by Jefus Chrift. 1 8 No man hath feen God at any time : the only begotten Son, which is in the bofom of the Father,... | |
| Friend to Truth - 1789 - 370 pages
...me ; for he was 16 ' before me. And of his fullnefs have all we re17 ' ceived, and grace for grace. For the law "was ' given by Mofes ; but grace and truth came by Jefus 1 8 ' Chrift. No man hath j'een God at any time : The ' only begotten Son, which is in the bofom of... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...extraordinary power of God. Q^ How do you prove that Chrift is the only Son of God? A. From John i. 1 8. 'No man hath feen God at any time ; the only begotten Son, which is in the bofom of the father, he hath declared him.' I John iv. 9. ' In this was manifefled the love of God towards us ;... | |
| Richard Watson - Theology - 1791 - 500 pages
...conlequently that he was the Meffiah whom they expected. For this reafon it was, that bt. John faid, The law was given by Mofes, but grace and truth came by Jejus Chriß (/) ; that is, our blefled Redeemer was the reality and fub— ftance of what the ceremonial... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1793 - 636 pages
...from which it is chiefly compiled. This is a plain and fenfible difcourfe from the following text": " For the law was given by Mofes, but grace and truth came by Jefus Chrift." John, i. 17.—but the author has promifed in his title-page more than the public will difcover to... | |
| Jacob Bryant - Apologetics - 1793 - 566 pages
...he inftituted a more rational worfhip, the religion of the heart. Hence it was very truly faid, that the law was given by Mofes, but grace and truth came by Jefus Chrift. He (hewed, 'that our firfl regard was to be paid to our Creator : whom we are to worfhip and love,... | |
| George Horne - 1793 - 410 pages
...fubfequent verfe of this chapter, we find " grace and truth" fet in oppofition to the Mofaic law. " The law was given " by Mofes, but grace and truth came by " Jefus Chrift." The law was the difpen- DIsC. fation of juftice, auftere, rigorous, inflexi- J^_ ble. " He that doeth... | |
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