 | Sarah Trimmer - 1811 - 396 pagina’s
...thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him; 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said I am not the Christ, but that I -am sent before him. 29... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1872 - 634 pagina’s
...deeply impressive, and seemed to bear upon his own case. It was the saying of John the Baptist — "A man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven." Whatever he had received that was good and true, or whatever of such a nature he had been enabled to impart... | |
 | John Newton - 1814 - 318 pagina’s
...serve him, the good work is begun ; for it is a truth that holds universally and without exception, a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. The Lord first finds us when we are thinking of something else, Isaiah Ixv. 1 ; and then we begin to... | |
 | 1815 - 876 pagina’s
...entertain a modest sens« of my deficiencies aid failings, л grateful and devout conviction, that " a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven," and, from the experience of life and the occurrences of this moment, a lively and encouraging confidence... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 600 pagina’s
...just, character of the Person, who was invested with this authority, when he says, concerning him, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven : qd " I have not received this honour of being the Christ, and " doing the works which he does, but... | |
 | Edward Thomas Vaughan - 1916 - 494 pagina’s
...Have you ever studied that text, Brother ? (John iii. 30.) ' He must increase, but I must decrease?' ' A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven." Dr. Conyers was another subject of his most interesting representations : — the truly episcopal gravity,... | |
 | 1817 - 842 pagina’s
...barest witness, behold, thé sanie baptizeth, and ail mett corne to him. 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. 28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not thé Christ, but that I am sent beforo him.... | |
 | 1817 - 370 pagina’s
...souls, as the power to make a world ? Such scriptures as these, ' unto you it is given to believe. — A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. — No man can come unto me, except the Father draw hhn. — Every good gift,' and of course that of... | |
 | 1818 - 246 pagina’s
...thou bearest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. 27 John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. &S Ye yourselves bear me^ witness, that I said, lam not the Christ, but that I am sent before him.... | |
 | John Anderson - 1820 - 484 pagina’s
...preaching? Ruf. They have many good reasons. They observe, that the scripture expressly asserts, that a man can receive nothing, except it be. given him from heaven ;* and therefore the receiving of Christ necessarily presupposes a giving of him ; that is a revelation... | |
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Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. 
