 | 1826 - 638 páginas
...not preach the Gospel. He cannot, it is presumed, honestly adopt the words of the apostle, and say, ' We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.1 " Language and style, used in preaching, ought to be on a level with the capacity of... | |
 | Edward Dorr Griffin - 1813 - 416 páginas
...righteous overmuch, neither make thyself overwise." " He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool." " We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." " Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not... | |
 | 1814 - 632 páginas
...(says he) that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of .*yonr joy." chap. iii. fi, " For we preach not ourselves but Christ. Jesus the Lord : and ourselves your sen-ants forJesui take." chap xi. 12. " For \e suffer foots gladly, seeing .ye yourselves are wise;... | |
 | Nathaniel Lardner - 1815 - 616 páginas
..." Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy," 2 Cor. i. 24 ; " for we preach not ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake," chap. iv. 5. I might refer you to the appeals they have made themselves upon some occasions... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1816 - 488 páginas
...our highest glory consists in our humility, and our best dig«ity -in stooping to be useful : " For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." We claim no obsequious homage, we arrogate not dominion over your faith, but we expect... | |
 | Legh Richmond - 1817 - 806 páginas
...Cephas, and I am of Christ:" these were the beginnings of antichrist. But Paul saith ('2 Cor,iv.), "We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants, for Jesus'sake." So the true disciples of Christ reckon not themselves any thing, but the members one of... | |
 | Ralph Eddowes - 1817 - 236 páginas
...say of themselves. "Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy." " We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." " The elders which are among you I exhort who am also an elder— feed the flock of God... | |
 | Edward Stillingfleet - 1817 - 438 páginas
...that work upon the understanding, which was so 2 Cor. iv. 5. much above it? But, saith the Apostle, We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. If they had sought themselves, or their own credit and reputation, there might have been... | |
 | Edward Stillingfleet - 1817 - 430 páginas
...that work upon the understanding, which was so 2 Cor. iv. 5. much above it? But, saith the Apostle, We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. If they had sought themaelves, or their own credit and reputation, there might have been... | |
 | James Murray - 1819 - 388 páginas
...servants of Jesus Christ ; — and the first of these ex*presseth himself plainly on this point— r" For we preach not 'ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake*." Notwithstanding that Paul was educated in the Jewish schools by Doctor Gamaliel, yet... | |
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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. 
