| John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...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
...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,... | |
| William Giles - Christian life - 1804 - 280 pages
...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... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...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
...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... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1805 - 520 pages
...in a natural, as well as a spiritual sense, \yhat 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 lor,dship, as I guess by your following words, would argue, that a material substance... | |
| David Low Dodge - Christianity - 1808 - 156 pages
...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,... | |
| William Romaine - Christian life - 1809 - 212 pages
...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
...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... | |
| Joseph Lathrop - Bible - 1810 - 600 pages
...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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