 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1702 - 462 Seiten
...he was born. If thefe two Great Men had liv'd long enough to be acquainted with St. PaulV Doctrine, that we are not fufficient of ourfelves to think any thing as of ourfelves, but our Sufficiency is of God, and the I(eafons he gives for it, they had alter d their Opinion. Thefe... | |
 | Philo-Delphus (pseud.) - 1719 - 332 Seiten
...firm Refolatioa will help you much in your Endeavours. But confidering withal ? how impotent and weak we are, not fufficient of ourfelves to think any thing as of ourlelves, and that all our Sufficiency is of God, you muft purpofe and promife nothing but by his... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1777 - 528 Seiten
...becaufe all the believer's efforts, in profecution of it, are in a dependance on Chrift's ftrength : We are not fufficient of ourfelves, to think any thing as of ourfelves ; but our fujficiency is of God. pj^hen I am weak, then am I ftrong. I can do all things through Chrift ftrengthening... | |
 | Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (AMERICA, North) - 1793 - 402 Seiten
...receiveth not the things of the Spirit of Go"d ? In fliort who dare fuggeft any thought, fince he knows that we are not fufficient of ourfelves to think any...as of ourfelves, but that our fufficiency is of God ? And therefore what the apoftle faith ought juftly to be held fure and firm, that God worketh in us... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1795 - 540 Seiten
...according to the mind of Chrift, i Cor. ii. 17. We may be fure, as the apoftle fays, 2 Cor. ii. 5. that, " We are not fufficient of ourfelves to think any thing as of ourlelves, our fufficiency muft be of God." And if we can think of nothing aright of ourfelves, far... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 526 Seiten
...liim that hath no might he increafeth ftrength. — All our new ability and fufficiency is of him ; " We are not fufficient, of ourfelves, to think any thing as of ourfelves ; but our fufficiency is of God." — All things relating to the new creation are of God.~-The new heaven... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 512 Seiten
...his.people can fometimes fay with Paul, " I can do all things through Chrift ftrengthening me. 'Thb' we are not fufficient of ourfelves, to think any thing as of ourfelves, yet our fufficiency is of God." And .hence the .church, Ifa,. xxvi. 12. " Thou haft wrought all our... | |
 | John Wesley - 1794 - 738 Seiten
...life : and who is fufficiem for thefe things ?" No created being is fufficient of himfelf ; — tor, " We are not fufficient of ourfelves to think any thing as of ourfelves ; but our fufficiericy is of God." And herein confifts a confiderable part of a mlnifter's glory, that his... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 630 Seiten
...maintained, they will make the believer ftand, when the darkeft fhadows of death are round about him. " We are not fufficient of ourfelves to think any thing as of ourfelves, but our fufficiency is of the Lord." This is juft the way and work of faith; it travels between felf-emptinefs... | |
 | Joseph Milner - 1795 - 626 Seiten
...Scripture, " it is not of him that willeth, or of him that runneth, but of God that fheweth mercy. And, we are not fufficient of ourfelves to think any thing as of ourfelves." We befeech you to obferve theneccffary confequence of fuch opinions, namely, that we have no occafion,... | |
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Him who is invisible,' will perform. That invaluable record seems to say, ' Our fathers trusted in thee : they trusted, and thou didst deliver them : they trusted in thee, and were not confounded :' Ps. xxii, 4, 5. We are, indeed, called to aim and to... 
