 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 948 pages
...written (Eph. ii. 5): 'Even when we were dead in sins, he hath quickened us together with Christ.' (2 Cor. iii. 5): 'Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing good ' as of ourselves; but that we are sufficient is itself of God.' III. Nevertheless the Holy Spirit... | |
 | John Flavel - 1689 - 412 pages
...neither indeed can be." Rom. 8:7. "How can ye, being evil, speak good things." Matt. 12 : 34. " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God." 2 Cor. 3 : 5. How fallen then is man, who can neither believe nor obey, speak a good word... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...religious duties. " Without me," said Christ, "ye can do nothing :" and St. Paul says, " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ;" that is, we have it by actual supplies of the Holy Ghost. Christ is present, by his Spirit,... | |
 | 1842
...can be found more completely self-renouncing in this respect, than the declaration of St. Paul? " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves : but our sufficiency is of God.'' (2 Cor. iii. 5.) The right way to view a Christian, is, to regard him as a man whose wisdom... | |
 | 1802 - 374 pages
...God ; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables trust have we through Christ to God- ward : s Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency isof God ; 6 Who.also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; not of the letter, but of... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. 4 And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward : 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think...any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God ; 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ; rot of the letter, but of the... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...discharge all the functions of the holy ministry: "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, who also hath made us able wvvnister-s of the new Testament ; not of the letter, but of the... | |
 | William Giles - 1804 - 280 pages
...only joyfully receives, but gratefully confides in the divine testimony. • If, therefore, we are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God : If faith be his gift, and no man can come to Christ except the Father draw him : If, without... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 508 pages
...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." But your lordship, as I guess by your following words, would argue, that a material substance... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1807 - 604 pages
...affairs that I have sufficient natural faculties for, unless God should smile upon my attempt. " Not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing, as of ourselves/' I saw was a sacred truth. Friday, Oct. 26. In the morning, my soul was melted with a sense of divine... | |
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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. 
