 | Philip Schaff - 1877 - 948 pages
...receiveth not the things of the Spirit,' etc. (1 Cor. ii. 14). The same Paul elsewhere denies that we are 'sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves' (2 Cor. iii. 5). Now, it is evident that the mind or understanding is the guide of the will; and, seeing... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...discharge all 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 ministers of the new Testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit... | |
 | John Locke - 1805 - 520 pages
...mailer. For it is true in a natural, as well as a spiritual sense, what Sit. Paul says, * " No.t 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... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1808 - 634 pages
...Lord. Jlmen. The Efustle. J Cor. iii. 4. CUCH trust have we through O Christ to God-ward : Not hat we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency s of God. Who also hath made us able ministers of the <ew Testament; not of the etter, but of the Spirit:... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 490 pages
...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...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 " God " who worketh in us both to... | |
 | Church of England - 1810 - 466 pages
...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 Spirit:... | |
 | John Bevans - 1810 - 134 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - 660 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 confesses, " By the giace of God I am what I am—I labored abundantly, yet not I, but... | |
 | Samuel Davies - 1810 - 390 pages
...imagine we are equal to it. St. Paul, with all his apostolic furniture, humbly acknowledges, " We are not sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves : but our sufficiency is of God : who alone hath made us able ministers of the New Testament."! " Who is Paul," says he, " or... | |
 | John Owen - 1810 - 370 pages
...we are taught, ' that in us (that is, in our flesh) there dwelleth , BO good thing;' that we are not sufficient of ourselves. to think any thing as of ourselves ; ' but our sufficiency I ib of God," ' who is able to make all grace to abound I is good and useful to the souls of men ;... | |
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Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ;" 2 Cor. iii. 5. " As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine, no more can ye, except ye abide in me; for without me... 
