 | August Hermann Francke - 1823 - 264 pagina’s
...Christiana."(o) 3. A Disposition to reduce the Doctrines of Scripture to practice: for the Saviour says—" If any man will do the will of him (that sent me,) he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God: or whether I speak of myself." John vii. 17. -- 4. A high Esteem for divine Truth,... | |
 | Rev. Jonathan Dickinson - 1829 - 520 pagina’s
...this source the evil is traced by Him who knows what is in man. It was Christ who said to the Jews, " If any man will do the will of him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself:" intimating. that resistance to the will of God,... | |
 | 1830 - 520 pagina’s
...the reception of the testimony which God has given respecting his Son — If any man, said our Lord, will do the will of him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God. If the evidence of the resurrection of our Lord be sufficient to satisfy a mind... | |
 | Joseph Hutton - 1832 - 164 pagina’s
...apparently, as Lord King informs us, for the guidance of a religious society in Holland, and headed PACIFIC CHRISTIANS. 1. " We think nothing necessary...those whom he thinks best able to instruct him, no man, or society of men, having any authority to impose their opinions or interpretations on any other,... | |
 | Charlotte Anley - 1836 - 272 pagina’s
...transcends the former, that Christ himself, instead of appealing to any moral evidence, expressly tells us; ' If any man will do the will of Him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself 1' ' Then is there no value attaching to historical... | |
 | Independent Whig, Andrew SCOTT (Member of the Merchant Company, Edinburgh.) - 1845 - 420 pagina’s
...brethren there, he constructed the following order of a church. It is introduced by Lord King thus: — " The following paper in Locke's hand-writing, was drawn...of him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine. " 5. We leave him to the advice and assistance of those whom he thinks best able to instruct him, —... | |
 | William Parsons Atkinson - 1849 - 48 pagina’s
...truth-discerning head. But what is this but to repeat the maxim of the greatest of all teachers. " If any man will do the will of Him that sent me, he shall know of my doctrine whether it be of God." I have been giving you advice, that, I am aware, will not make you... | |
 | David Thomas - 462 pagina’s
...the health and vigour which it imparts to the wearied and diseased spirit. The great teacher said, " If any man will do the will of Him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine whether it be of God." This rule applied to the testing of Christ's authority and teaching in ancient... | |
 | Felicia Mary Frances Skene - 1852 - 220 pagina’s
...foreknowing every trial which should befall My children, have already said, " That if any man shall do the will of Him that sent Me, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of GOD ;'' and be thou very sure, that it is more blessed an hundred-fold, to continue... | |
 | 1853 - 886 pagina’s
...the other hand, our Lord says (John vii. 17), 'If any man mil [that is, if any one is willing to] do the will of Him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine whether it bo of (rod.' The dishonest have no right to espect an insight into moral truth. According... | |
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Obedience to what is already revealed to him, remembering that the practice of what we do know is the surest way to more knowledge ; our infallible Guide having told us, if any man will do the will of Him that sent me, he shall know of the doctrine, John... 
