 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1813 - 550 pages
...divine agency, in all their internal exercises as well as external actions. "Not that we are sufjicient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." He could not have asserted the doctrine of divine agency in human actions in plainer or stronger... | |
 | Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) - Dissenters - 1814 - 364 pages
...reasoning of his chosen vessel, 2 Cor. iii. 4, " And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God." This gracious assistance of our weakness to enable us to fulfil the will of our Maker, is... | |
 | James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - 634 pages
...efforts of the preacher's ingenuity. Be not ashamed to acknowledge what it was Paul's glory to say, " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves^ but our sufficiency is of God." Look upward ! Contemplate with delight, the fulness that is in Christ. Let your soul, in fervent... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - 792 pages
...therefore failed in my endeavours. We that have Jong run the Christian race, feel thiit we have no power in ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God. Yet the apostle who said this, could also say, / can do all things through Christ that streiigtheneth •me.... | |
 | Church of England - Fore-edge painting - 1815 - 450 pages
...Son, our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. SUCH trust have we thro' Christ to God-ward : not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God. Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the Spi142... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Congregational churches - 1815 - 422 pages
...constantly dependent upon a divine influence for the continuation and growth of grace. He says, "Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God." He says, "Now he which establisheth us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God, who... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 512 pages
...it ; though, it is true, the best may say, as the apostle does, We are not sufficient of ourstdves, to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God : Yet he adds, that they who are employed by him in this work, are made able ministers of the New-Testament,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1815 - 660 pages
...part of our Christian wisdom, to keep our subordination to God, and dependence on him. " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God."(c) Without me, says Christ, ye can do not king. (d) It is next supposed, that they who seek... | |
 | Robert Hall - Christianity - 1815 - 260 pages
...the New Testament. Their language is, Who is sufficient for these things ? 2 Cor. ii. 10. We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God, '2 Cor. iii. 5, 6. From a consciousness of personal inability, joined with a conviction of... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - 738 pages
...rather than Tie Ep'utle г Cor. iii. 4. SUCH trust have we through Christ to God-ward : not that 5. we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing, as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able mi- 6. nisters of the new testament ; not of the letter (z), but... | |
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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. 
