 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...they should seek the law at his mouth : for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts. 2 Cor. iii. 6. Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament,...the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 1 Jer. xiv. 15. Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...virtue or power in itself, but by the operation of the Spirit of God, in and by the word. 2 Cor. iii. 6, Who also hath made- us able ministers of the new testament,...the spirit; for the letter killeth,. but the spirit giveth life. Q. 6. How doth the word work effectually unto salvation ? A. The word doth work effectualy... | |
 | William Jones - Anglican Communion - 1810 - 522 pages
...together, for the edification of the people. " Our sufficiency " (saith the apostle) is of God, who hath made us " able ministers of the new testament,...the spirit : for the letter killeth, but "the spirit giveth life." The letter of the law, voided of its evangelical intention, leaves our bodies washed,... | |
 | James Morison - Bible - 1810 - 292 pages
...full length, in the 3d chapter of his 2d epistle to the Corinthians throughout : ' But,' says he, ' if the ministration ' of death, written and engraven...glorious, so that the ' children of Israel could not stedfastly behold tiie face of Moses, for ' the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 434 pages
...with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. God hath made us able ministers of the new testament;...glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, which glory was to be done away;... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...destitute of the Spirit of God, and so are distinguished from those ministers which God sends out. " But our sufficiency is of God, who also hath made...the Spirit; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life," 2 Cor. iii. 5, 6. Now the scriptures declare that " A man can receive nothing except... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1811 - 432 pages
...the light from heaven." The dead letter hath light enough for them. Whereas the Apostle saith, " God hath made us able •* ministers of the New Testament:...spirit : for the letter killeth, " but the spirit giveth life." 2 Cor. iii. 6. But the world in general will not receive this truth. *' And this is the... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...are sufficient of ourselves, to tliink any thing, as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency is of God : 6 Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament,...the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death written and ingraven in stones, was glorious, so that... | |
 | Universalism - 1812 - 292 pages
...ministration of death ? Answer, it is so only in the letter, in the spirit iŁ is life. See 2: Cor. 3, 6. " Who also hath made us able ministers ,of the New Testament...the spirit ; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." St. Paul took much pains in his Epistle to the Romans to make a proper distinction in... | |
 | Claudius Buchanan - Asia - 1812 - 424 pages
...the light from heaven." The dead letter hath light enough for them. Whereas the Apostle saith, " God hath made us able ministers of the New Testament ;...the spirit ; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life," 2 Cor. iii. 6. But the world in general will not receive this truth. " And this is the... | |
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Godward: not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God ; who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit... 
