 | John Flavel - 1689 - 412 էջ
...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 nor think a good... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 էջ
...them in all 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
...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...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 and strength would utterly fail,... | |
 | 1802 - 374 էջ
...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... | |
 | William Giles - 1804 - 280 էջ
...D 2 not 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 Fletcher - 1804 - 444 էջ
...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... | |
 | 1804 - 476 էջ
...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 Locke - 1805 - 508 էջ
...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... | |
 | David Low Dodge - 1808 - 156 էջ
...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 էջ
...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... | |
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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. 
