...apart of a person to some publick church office n. t Every I John iii. 27. John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. Rom. x. 14. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed ? and how shall they believe...

...human industry, or only by the talk of them. TALK. All that I know very well : for a man can re, ceive nothing except it be given him from heaven ; all is...grace, not of works : I could give you an hundred scriptures for the confirmation of this. Well then, said Faithful, what is that one thing that we shall...

...safely. I rather expected his help would arise from Scotland than from London. A Calvinist professes that a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. If so, we need not wonder that others, who are not favoured like us, cannot see with our eyes. However,...

...safely. I rather expected his help would arise from Scotland than from London. A Calvinist professes that a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. If so, we need not wonder that others, who are not favoured like us, cannot see with our eyes. However,...

...thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him; 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said I am not the Christ, but that I -am sent before him. 29...

...received of the Lord, . that which also I delivered unto you," 1 Cor. xi. 23 ; and we know that, " A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven," John iii. 27. Paul certainly did preach himself, as having his part and lot in all the treasure that...

...with healing in its wings. Remember who it is that hath made you to differ from others ; and that " a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven." John iii. 27". Not unto us, therefore, O Lord, not unto us, but to thy name alone be the praise of...

...serve him, the good work is begun ; for it is a truth that holds universally and without exception, a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. The Lord first finds us when we are thinking of something else, Isaiah Ixv. 1 ; and then we begin to...

...entertain a modest sens« of my deficiencies aid failings, л grateful and devout conviction, that " a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven," and, from the experience of life and the occurrences of this moment, a lively and encouraging confidence...

...just, character of the Person, who was invested with this authority, when he says, concerning him, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven : qd " I have not received this honour of being the Christ, and " doing the works which he does, but...