 | 1885 - 302 sider
...required to teach us all our helplessness, and to make us fully understand that success is not achieved by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. Further, this spirit of temperance will not only be seen in curbing ambition and directing zeal to... | |
 | Joshua Wells Downing - 1841 - 346 sider
...of the cross. But the Spirit of God alone can consecrate it; and hence again we see that it is not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts. From this subject we see, 1. The necessity of a pious ministry. He who ventures upon the... | |
 | 1841 - 592 sider
...together, for an eternal habitation of God, through the Spirit. The building of this temple is, not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord. This appears from the greatness of the work which it was necessary to perform in order to lay the foundation... | |
 | 1841 - 438 sider
...plainly marked ; it is nothing to the Christian that the instruments are few and feeble. " It is not by might nor by power but by the Spirit of the Lord," and He who works as readily by few as by many, hath given this special command to his disciples ; "... | |
 | Joshua Wells Downing - 1842 - 346 sider
...does spread, and shall spread all over the earth ; not because its doctrines please the sinner,—not by might, nor by power; but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts. II. Does Christianity offer its converts worldly honours? The various heathen religions found... | |
 | 1843 - 398 sider
...glory, and he will keep teaching us, for we need lesson upon lesson, that we may know that " it is not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord." He will not give his gloiy 10 another, nor suffer his praise to be given to graven images. Bless his... | |
 | 1843 - 718 sider
...Having addressed men as sinners, the scriptures universally testify that if they be saved, it is " not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord." " In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision ; but faith which worketh... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1851 - 568 sider
...that in uttering such a sentiment we are magnifying the arm of flesh, and forgetting that it is not by might nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts that sinners are converted unto God. In the moral and spiritual, as much as in the natural... | |
 | 1843 - 726 sider
...Having addressed men as sinners, the scriptures universally testify that if they be saved, it is " not by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord." " In Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision ; but faith which worketh... | |
 | 1844 - 546 sider
...months, eighteen have been added, to the Society here, to God be all tbe praise ; for it has not been by might, nor by power, but by the Spirit of the Lord of Hosts. We are still praying and believing for greater things, and have strong grounds to expect,... | |
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... but by the Spirit of the Lord of hosts, that the world is to be overcome, and the kingdom of righteousness and peace established. 
