...ourselves ; und i;i M proportion as we are conformed to the image of Him, who came down from heaven, " not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him," — it will not be. When a young woman enters upon a new situation, let her not " seek her own, but...

...man should be redeemed ; and, in obedience 7 Matt. xvi. 24. to that will, Christ descended upon earth "not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him ;" 8 and so deeply intent was he upon the object of his mission, that even the calls of nature were...

...messenger of God,* he who, having assumed the form of a servant, was obedient to God even unto deathb, who came, not to do his own will, but the will of him who had sent him,0 might not receive this appellation ; since he was strictly that which the appellation...

...great work for the salvation of souls. Such was the love of the Son of God, who came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. " He pleased not himself." Glorious and most sublime example of complete unselfishness! Such a life,...

...And O how beautifully it was exemplified in him 1 He pleased not himself. He came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him. His meat was to do it, and to finish his work. " O, my Father, if this cup may not pass from me except...

...himself; — an everlasting spirit, which came forth from God, and was sent down into a house of clay, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. He knows the world ; — the place in which he is to pass a few days or years, not as an inhabitant,...

...endeavouring to fill the station in which my Master has placed me, often remembering that He himself came not to do His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him. When I am weary I think of His words,' The night cometh when no man can work;' and this incites me...

...to his Divine Master, who, though equal with God, became subject to man ; who came into this world not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him, who became obedient to death, even the death of the cross, and who bids us, if we would be his disciples,...

...into the world, they probably mean, by Son, the dependent Son, who could be sanctified and sent ; and who came not to do his own will, but the will of God who sent him. They make but little practical use of the doctrine of the Trinity. It seems to be...

...creatures. To deliver from this, the Saviour came and acknowledged that he was not his own : that he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. Not but it was his own will, but not apart from the will of the Father. The Saviour has by thus giving...