 | John Gill - 1796 - 550 pages
...spiritual fathers; though you have ten thousand instnictors in Christ, says the apostle tp the Corinthians, yet have ye not many fathers, for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel, so he speaks of his son Onesimus, whom he had bigvnen in his bonds, Philem. ю- yet this instru-nentalitr... | |
 | Joanna Southcott - 1804 - 606 pages
...God is not in word, but in power. Per. 15. remarked by me—Though ye have ten thousand insUucters in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel. Hebrews xii. 28. quoted by Garrett. But I must refer my readers from verse. 25 to the end,... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1805 - 544 pages
...by the ministry of this word, and the seals of it, as1, For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many Fathers ; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the Gospel. As also*: But all those have their vigour and efficacy in this great work, from the Father... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...ministry, so mean comparatively, hath had this effect.) Though you should have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers : For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. My endeavours are (as a father his children) to feed you with knowledge and understanding,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 536 pages
...God has made them the instruments of: 1 Cor. iv. 15. " For though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus, I have begotten you through the gospel." II. Now I am taking my leave of this people I would apply myself to such among them as I leave... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pages
...as he reminds them in these epistles ; 1 Cor. iv. 15. « For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers. For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel." We » Preached on the oecision of the excommunication of a person, July «*, >789havean account... | |
 | John Gill - 1810 - 626 pages
...fathers; though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, "says the apostle to the Corinthians, yet have ye not many fathers^ for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel; so he speaks of his son Onesimus, whom he had begotten in his bonds, Philtm. 1O. It seems plain... | |
 | John Owen - 1810 - 370 pages
...apostle Paul styles himself a father :—' Though you have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet not many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.' He had-been the instrument of their conversion, and was therefore their spiritual .father.... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - 1811 - 302 pages
...Corinthian converts Paul says, "as my beloved sons, I warn you. For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gosfiel." \ Cor. iv. 15 Paul had prepared them, through preaching the law, by which is the knowledge... | |
 | Edward Barwick - 1811 - 246 pages
...Corinthians, 1 Cor. 4. 15. where he says, "though ye have 10,000 instructors in Christ, yet ye have not many fathers ; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you, through the gospel. Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me,." Cor.. 9. 1. "and am I not an apostle ? if... | |
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instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers. for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.—My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you," 1 Cor. iv. 15. Gal. iv. 19. And whereas thou seest... 
