...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....

...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....

...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...

...measure of faith. Rom. xii. 3. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 1 Thess. v. 24. A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. John iii. 27. If God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. 2 Tim....

...man attaineth to them by human industry, or only by the talk of them. Talk. AH this I know very well. For a man can receive nothing except it be given him from Heaven ; all this is of grace, not of works ; 1 could give you an hundred scriptures for the confirmation of this....

...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,...

...deliver concerning free will (libero arbitrio,) we deservedly reject, since he is the slave of sin; and " a man can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven." For who will dare to boast that he is able to perform whatever he shall will, when Christ himself says,...

...industry, wisdom, or regal power. — He had it from some other quarter. He received it from above of God. For, " a man can receive nothing except it be given him from Heaven," as the Baptist saith, John iii. 27; he cannot receiveit upon the grounds of his own worthiness or merits....

...thou barest witness, behold, the samebaptizetb, and all men come 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 the Christ, but that I am sent before him....

...Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, but of God, &c.— Johni. 13. iii. 3,&c. A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. — John iii. 27. No man can come unto me, except the Father which hath sent me, draw him, &c. Except...