 | Joseph Priestley - 1793 - 422 sidor
...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 sidor
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Carr - 1801 - 364 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 - 1803 - 680 sidor
...the apostle gives of his own conduct, and that of his brethren in the christian ministry : We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. In which words he plainly declares — that they did not make themselves the chief end of their ministry,... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - 1803 - 518 sidor
...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... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 738 sidor
...the apostle gives of his own conduct, and that of his brethren in the Christian ministry : We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves your servants for Jesus sake. In which words he plainly declares — that they did not make themselves the chief end of their ministry,... | |
 | 1804 - 476 sidor
...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... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1804 - 372 sidor
...favour, on the presumption of an inherent dignity in their order, " For we preach not our" selves, but Christ Jesus the Lord, and ourselves ." your servants for Jesus' sake"— nor .yet on personal accomplishments, whether natural or acquired: " What things were 'gain" to Paul,... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1806 - 336 sidor
...: and it is wonderful how lovingly he spoke to us, while he preached from this text, ' ' We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord ; and ourselves, your servants for Jesus's sake." He told us, how he hoped he was sent purely for the good of our souls; and how fervently... | |
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For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 
