 | John Flavel - Conversion - 1689 - 412 pages
...if, under this consideration, all our people received the word we preach as the Thessalonians did, not as the word of man but as the word of God. 1 Thess. 2 : 13. Then it would work effectually in us as it did in them. But alas, we have low apprehensions... | |
 | John Howe - 1744 - 484 pages
...for you without ceaftng, that that when ye received the 'word of truth from us SE RM. you received it not as the word of man, but as the •word of GOD which effectually 'works in all them {bat believe f. VII. SETTLE .it in your minds as an important... | |
 | David BRAINERD - 1748 - 132 pages
...evident did it now appear that they received and felt them, not at the Word of Man, but as theWord of God! None can frame a juft Idea of the Appearance of our Afiembly at this Time, but thole who have feen a Congregation folemnly awtd, and deeply imprejjed by... | |
 | John Glas - Sandemanianism - 1761 - 528 pages
...Judea, in the obfervation of that word, " which wrought effectually in them, when they recei'' ved it, not as the word of man, but as the word of God," i TheflT. ii. i3. i4. That word which was then delivered to them by the apoftles, prophets, and evangelifts,... | |
 | George Lyon - Sermons, English - 1794 - 424 pages
...it, if, under this confideration, you received the word which we preach, as the Thefialonians did, not as the word of man, but as the word of God. For then it would work effectually in you, as it did in them. But, alas ! our npprehenfions of the... | |
 | John Gill - Theology, Doctrinal - 1796 - 498 pages
...into their heads only, but into their hearts, where it has a place, and dwells richly ; who receive it not as the word of man, but as the word of God ; as his witness and record which he bears of his Son, of his person and divine Sonship, and of eternal... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1796 - 512 pages
...or that man fpeaking to you ; but if you have heard God fpeaking by the word to you, and heard it, not as the word of man, but as the word of God. More particularly, have you heard, (i.) So as -to be convinced of your Egyptian thraldom and Affyrian... | |
 | John Allen - 1802 - 1326 pages
...to hear what he (hall fay, but catching the word eagerly as it droppeth from his lips, receiving it not as the word of man, but as the word of GOD; it then heareth, as though GOD were fpeaking, and the word comes with iuch authority, that it commands... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...assistance of interpreters. I sincerely desired to know the truth, and for that end I read the Scriptures, " not as the "word of man, but as the word of God." And though there have been seasons of remissness, when other employments and studies too much interfered... | |
 | John Whitehead - 1805 - 570 pages
...> me power, with the pure unmixtmilk of his word. And those who are as little children receive it, not as the word of man, but as the word of God. Some grow thereby, and advance apace iti peace and holiness : they grieve, 'tis true, for those who... | |
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And those who are as little children receive it, not as the word of man, but as the word of God. 
