 | Thomas Chalmers - Astronomy - 1817 - 292 pages
...workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Eph. ii. 1. 10. For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. 1 Thes. i. 5. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...are truly affected, and our live* duly influenced by them from day to day. These truths, coming to us not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance, are the power of God unto our salvation. For as soon, and in proportion as we thus, believe,... | |
 | Legh Richmond - Suffering - 1817 - 806 pages
...shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of mine hand." For our Gospel was not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. That you have yielded obedience unto the word, and that my ministry hath been effectual... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...appear ? The evidence of it is given in what immediately follows ; " For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake." In all cases, " by their... | |
 | John Edwards Caldwell - 1818 - 780 pages
...this gospel comes now unto them generally, it appears, as it did to the ancient Thessalonian church, " not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance," 1 Thess. i. 5. This will surely not be wondered at by any one who considers, that when Paul was called to preach the... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1818 - 490 pages
...progress among the inhabitants. Indeed, he had- before said, that " the Gospel had come not unto them in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ;" and that they had " become followers of the Apostles, and of the Lord, having received... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1837 - 668 pages
...Ghost, that it worketh effectually and giveth life. It is when the Gospel cometh, as St. Paul says, "not in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance," that it is powerful to salvation, causing men to become followers of the Lord. Oh ! that... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...foolishness ; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Cor. i. 18. Our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. 1 Thess. i. 5. The entrance of thy words giveth light. Ps. cxix. 130. Sanctify them through thy truth : thy word is... | |
 | Lady Darcy Maxwell, Rev. John Lancaster, John Lancaster - Methodists - 1821 - 406 pages
...conducts him onward to the possession of certain and unfading bliss. Then it is, the gospel comes to him, not " in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ;" " casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge... | |
 | Richard Watson - Methodist Church - 1821 - 240 pages
...years ; these things are observable. 1. How the truth of the gospel then came not in word only, but in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance, 1 Thess. i. 5 ; assurance of faith and understanding of the truth, and with that seal of the greatest enlargement... | |
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For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance ; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for your sake. 
