 | John Jortin - 1752 - 320 pages
...his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour. And our Lord fays of himfelf, after his refurreclion, that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth. In the Revelation he is called, King of kings , and Lord of lords. This royal dignity, this high exaltation,... | |
 | William Craig - 1767 - 172 pages
...fouls ; and was equally difpofed, and able, to enfure their everlafting interefts beyond the grave. ' That all power was given ' to him in heaven, and in earth : and that he ' bad the words of eyerlafting life.' SECTION III, Chri/fs moral and religion! character... | |
 | John Skinner (Bp. of Aberdeen) - 1803 - 564 pages
...But as his death was to take away the diftinction between Jew and Gentile, fo after his refurre&ion he declared, that " all power was given to him in...them—" As my Father hath "fent me, even fo fend 1 you ;" which plainly fhewed, that as the Father had fent and empowered him, to collect, conftitute and... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1804 - 692 pages
...been a kind of proverbial expredion, denoting the 'univerfe in general. Thus when our Saviour faid that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth, he might only mean that he was appointed fupreme in every thing that refpected the chriftian church.... | |
 | John Jortin - 1805 - 438 pages
...his right hand, to be a Prince and a Saviour. And our Lord says of himself, after his resurrection, that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth. In the Revelation he is called ' King of kings, and Lord of lords.' This royal dignity, this high exaltation,... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1804 - 530 pages
...proverbial expression, denoting the universe in general. Thus when our Saviour said, [Matt, xxviii. 18,] that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth, b« might only mean that he was appointed supreme in every thing that respected the Christian church.... | |
 | 1865 - 1194 pages
...some doubted ; but for their fuller satisfaction He drew near, and conversed with them, and cedued that all power was given to Him, in heaven and in earth. Sviseyuently He appeared to Peter and six others of the disciples, who toi temaiiied together in Galilee.... | |
 | Eliphalet Wheeler Gilbert, Benjamin Ferris - 1823 - 524 pages
...made to this divine commission takes care to obviate them,— First, by assuring his true ministers that " all power was given to him in Heaven and in earth." Where he is there is divine power — and then by giving them a promise, which has never been annulled,... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1824 - 158 pages
...every period. St. Matthew informs us that, after his resurrection, our Lord declared to his apostles that " all power was given to Him in heaven and in earth h ;" and it appears from various passages in the New Testament, that the actual use of this power began... | |
 | 1824 - 126 pages
...K 49 Jesus did all the mighty works which are recorded of him; and in a perfect union with it, knew that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth. There is no truth which applies to Jesus, but what applies to every other man in the same state of... | |
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P. 327. Though the apostles have affirmed the exaltation of the Saviour to the government of the universe in every variety of form which language can supply, — though he himself declared that all power was given to him in heaven and in earth, — his... 
