| John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...gospel, to most of our hearers, is but an empty sound : this is a sad symptom. " If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost ; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not." 2 Cor. 4 : 3, 4. This hiding of the gospel is not... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Sermons - 1793 - 422 pages
...PUBLIC LIBRARY 353545A ASTOR, LENOX AND T1LDEN FOUNDATIONS fi :'J2B L • SERMON. n CORINTHIANS IV. 5. WE PREACH NOT OURSELVES BUT CHRIST JESUS THE LORD; AND OURSELVES YOUR SERVANTS FOR JESUs's SAKE. THE apoftle Paul, in this his fecond epiftle addrefled to the chriftians at Corinth,... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...prayer. The Rev. Nathan Perkins, DD of West-Hartford, (Conn.) preached the sermon, from 2 Cor. iv. 5. " We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake." The Rev. Coanrod Ten. Kick, of May field, (NY) made the consecrating prayer; during which Dr. Perkins,... | |
| 1805 - 590 pages
...doctrines, to some/ appears to be hid, as was said by an inspired apostle. If our gospel be hid, it is liid to them that are lost, in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them, ivho believe not, lest the light of the glorious gos/iel of Christ,... | |
| Samuel Carr - 1801 - 364 pages
...inverted, and we may with equal justice ask, ** How shall we ** preach without a hearer?" Brethren, Ave preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves your servants for Jesus- sake; who, as St. Paul tells us, " has given some Apostles, ** and some Prophets, and some Evan** gelists,and... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the...Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 For God, who commanded 'the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the... | |
| Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1803 - 680 pages
...testimony in the consciences of all that intimately knew them, and accurately observed them ; he adds, For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake * . Oh that every christian mimster, who in succeeding ages hath read these words, had been delivered... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 738 pages
...testimony in the consciences of all that intimately knew them, and accurately observed them ; he adds, For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake *. Oh that every Christian minister, who in succeeding ages hath read these words, had been delivered... | |
| William Laurence Brown - Sermons, English - 1803 - 518 pages
...retnonftrances, muft be dii—f—i reded to the prefent welfare, and to the future falvation of their brethren. We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves, your servants, for Jesus' sake. Called to preach to you, my brethren of this congregation, I judge it not unprofitable, either to you... | |
| Alexander Macwhorter - Presbyterian Church - 1803 - 488 pages
...investigation of natural reason, the oracles of God abundantly teach. " If our gospel be hid it it M hid to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath " blinded ths eyes of them that believe not, lest the light of the " glorious gospel of Christ,... | |
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