 | David Low Dodge - 1808 - 156 pages
...dtrect his steps." Our Saviour says, " For without me, ye can do nothing." The apostle declares, " not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." "For it is in him we live, move, and have our being." " The preparations of the heart in man,... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...Son our Lord. Amen. The Ejii&tle. I Cor. iii. 4. 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 s of God. \Vho also hath made us able ministers of the Mew Testament ; not of the etter, but of the... | |
 | William Romaine - 1809 - 212 pages
...from his holy inspiration. So the scripture teaches : 2 Cor. iii. 5. " Not that we (even apostles') are sufficient of ourselves, to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God," So we are taught to pray : O Lord, from whom all good things do come, grant to us thy humble... | |
 | John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pages
...my Spirit, saith the Lord :" The Apostle Paul speaks to the same purpose, when he says, " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God :" And our gracious Lord hath taught us the same truth, in these wellknown words, " Without... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...St. Paul, in his own name and in the name of all his brethren, disavows all self-sufficiency. " Not " that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any " thing as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of • " God." (2 Cor. iii. 5. Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 10.) And in another place he tells us that it is "... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...Son our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. 2 Cor. iii. 4. 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 ministers . of the New Testament; not of the letter, but of the... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pages
...prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. 1 90. k Mat. vi. 9. 1 2 Cor. iii. 5. Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is of God. Psal. li. 15. O Lord, open thou my lips, and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. m Psal.... | |
 | John Bevans - 1810 - 134 pages
...Or ministry, let us wait on our minister. ing ; or he that teacheth, on teaching. 2 Cor. iii. 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, not of the letter, but of the... | |
 | James Macknight - 1810 - 492 pages
...stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. 4 And such trugt have we through Christ to Godward : 5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves : but our sufficiency te of God. 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament, not of the letter, but of the... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 600 pages
...Though we are moral and intelligent beings, yet such is the depravity of our nature, that " we are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing, as of ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." Paul confes. ses, " By the grace of God I am what I am — I labored abundantly, yet not I,... | |
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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. 
