 | P. M. Carey - Apologetics - 1838 - 316 pages
...made to say, I am greater than myself. He says repeatedly, that he is sent from God; that he is come, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. If Christ and the being that sent him are the same, then he is come to do his own will, and, at the... | |
 | John Dick - Presbyterian Church - 1838 - 588 pages
...conformity to the will of a superior ; and the great example proposed to us, is that of our Saviour, who came " not to do his own will, but the will of him who sent him." From these observations it follows, that to constitute a work formally good, it must... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...will be done" is the prayer of his heart, as well as of his lips. He seeks to be the follower of him who came not to do his own will but the will of him that sent him. He does not stop to inquire why God gives this or that command. It is sufficient for him to know that... | |
 | William Hague - 1839 - 242 pages
...Col. i. 15. And "the brightness of his glory." Heb. i. 3. : I believe that he "came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him." John vi. 38. That he .came "to bear witness unto the truth." John xviii 37. That "the Father, which... | |
 | Richard De Charms - New Jerusalem Church - 1840 - 722 pages
...the divine will to the precepts of divine truth, is the Humanity of Jehovah God. And this is Jesus Christ, who came not to do his own will, but the will of the father who sent him — whose meat was to do the will of the father who sent him, and to finish... | |
 | Tracts - 1841 - 406 pages
...Col. i. 15. And "the brightness of his glory;" Heb. i. 3. I believe that he " came down from heaven not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him:" John vi. 38. That he came " to bear witness unto the truth :" John xviii. 37. That " the Father, which... | |
 | Evangelicalism - 1842 - 434 pages
...remembrance of his name.' " Agreeable to this his one desire, is the one design of his life ; namely, ' not to do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him.' His one intention at all times, and in all things is,nottopleas-j him self.but Him whom his soul loveth.... | |
 | Daniel Waterland, William Van Mildert - Theology - 1843 - 734 pages
...claim as much to be the " first cause of all things, as he that created all things by him ? " Does he who came not to do his own will, but the will of him " that sent him, claim as much to have no superior, as he whose " will he was sent to fulfil T And he has more to the... | |
 | John Pearson - Apostles' Creed - 1843 - 500 pages
...we must be co-heirs with Christ ; if sons, we must be brethren to the only-begotten : but being he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him, he acknowledgeth no fraternity but with such as do the same ; as he hath said, Whosoecer shall do the... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - Baptism - 1844 - 922 pages
...heavenly ecstacies. Thus they showed their faith in him, and gratitude to him who came down from heaven, to offer up his life a ransom for many. So must we, so would we partake of their joys on earth, their... | |
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Christ ; if sons, we must be brethren to the only-begotten: but being he came not to do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him, he acknowledgeth no fraternity but with such as do the same ; as he Matt. 
