 | Thomas Porter (Unitarian.) - 1793 - 228 pages
...taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myjel/ : I havt power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; THIS COMMANDMENT HAVE i RECEIVED OF MY FATHER. The word, which in this place is tranflated power, more more properly fignifies right or authority... | |
 | Catherine D'Oyly - 1794 - 748 pages
...taketh it from me, but I " lay it down of myfelf : I have power to " lay it down, and I have power to take " it again. This commandment have I " received of my Father." Though fhort-fighted man cannot difcern the hypocrite from the true Chriftian, our our Lord, to whom... | |
 | Richard Price - Sermons, American - 1794 - 278 pages
...one taketh it from me ; but Hay it down of my fe If. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. — In all other places GOD is laid to have raifed Chriil from the dead ; and thefe words inform us... | |
 | Thomas Boston - Covenant theology - 1797 - 356 pages
...duion of myfelf : I have power to /ay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment bave I received of my Father. Here is a furetifhip that...! David, in a tranfport of grief for the death of liis fon Abfalom, withes he had died for him, 2 .Sam. xviii. 33. Reuben will venture tbc li'e of his... | |
 | Thomas Thirlwall - 1803 - 324 pages
...taketh it from " me, but I lay it down of myself. I have ** power to lay it down, and I have power to " take it again. This commandment have I " received of my Father." There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings, find many of them said, He hath... | |
 | William Huntington - Death - 1804 - 606 pages
...and answer every purpose for which it was offered. " I have power to lay it down, and 1 have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father," John x. 11, 15, 17, 18. Thus we see that the Son of God voluntarily laid down his human nature as a... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself : I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again : this commandment have I received of my Father. 19 There was a division, therefore, again among the Jews, for these sayings. 20 And many of them said,... | |
 | James Thomson (minister at Quarrelwood.) - 1808 - 592 pages
...the form of a command, not of a threatening, " I have power to lay (my life) down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father." John x. 18. Every attempt to obey a command, with reluctance, destroys obedience; as all obedience... | |
 | Joshua Spalding - Theology, Doctrinal - 1808 - 456 pages
...No man taketh it from me> but I Lay it down ofmyfelf: I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. John x. 15 — 18. — His laying down his life, in obedience to the commandment which he had received,... | |
 | John Watkins - 1809 - 454 pages
...No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings. And 'many of them said, He hath... | |
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Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again. No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father. 
