 | James BOWDEN (Minister at Tooting.) - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...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... | |
 | Platon (Metropolitan of Moscow) - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...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... | |
 | J A. Stewart - 1814 - عدد الصفحات: 792
...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... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...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... | |
 | Church of England - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...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... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...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... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...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... | |
 | John Locke - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 1048
...of its Maker. For it is true in a natural, as well as a spiritual sense, what St. Paul says, * " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God.'' Bat your lordship, as I guess by your following words, would argw, that a material substance... | |
 | Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...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... | |
 | Jean Calvin - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...guide. Paul shews its deficiency in the sight of the Lord in every part of our life, when he denies " that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves." (a) He does not speak of the will or the affections, but he also divests us of every good thought,... | |
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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. 
