 | Joseph Priestley - 1793 - 422 էջ
...PUBLIC LIBRARY 353545A ASTOR, LENOX AND T1LDEN FOUNDATIONS fi :'J2B L • SERMON. n CORINTHIANS IV. 5. WE PREACH NOT OURSELVES BUT CHRIST JESUS THE LORD; AND OURSELVES YOUR SERVANTS FOR JESUs's SAKE. THE apoftle Paul, in this his fecond epiftle addrefled to the chriftians at Corinth,... | |
 | 1804 - 498 էջ
...prayer. The Rev. Nathan Perkins, DD of West-Hartford, (Conn.) preached the sermon, from 2 Cor. iv. 5. " We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." The Rev. Coanrod Ten. Kick, of May field, (NY) made the consecrating prayer; during which Dr. Perkins,... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 364 էջ
...inverted, and we may with equal justice ask, ** How shall we ** preach without a hearer?" Brethren, Ave preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus- sake; who, as St. Paul tells us, " has given some Apostles, ** and some Prophets, and some Evan** gelists,and... | |
 | 1802 - 374 էջ
...the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded 'the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 680 էջ
...testimony in the consciences of all that intimately knew them, and accurately observed them ; he adds, For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake * . Oh that every christian mimster, who in succeeding ages hath read these words, had been delivered... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - 1803 - 518 էջ
...retnonftrances, muft be dii—f—i reded to the prefent welfare, and to the future falvation of their brethren. We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves, your servants, for Jesus' sake. Called to preach to you, my brethren of this congregation, I judge it not unprofitable, either to you... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 738 էջ
...testimony in the consciences of all that intimately knew them, and accurately observed them ; he adds, For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake *. Oh that every Christian minister, who in succeeding ages hath read these words, had been delivered... | |
 | 1804 - 476 էջ
...the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1804 - 372 էջ
...favour, on the presumption of an inherent dignity in their order, " For we preach not our" selves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves ." your servants for Jesus' sake"— nor .yet on personal accomplishments, whether natural or acquired: " What things were 'gain" to Paul,... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1806 - 336 էջ
...long time : and it is wonderful how lovingly he spoke to us, while he preached from this text, ' ' We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves, your servants for Jesus's sake." He told us, how he hoped he was sent purely for the good of our souls; and how fervently... | |
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For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 
