 | Matthew Hale - 1763 - 440 pages
...do/.' B 5i 3. Which is yet a higher ftep, he fuffiered all this willingly and chearfully, John x. 18. " No man taketh my " life from me, but I lay it down of myfelf." Luke xii. j0. " I have a baptifin to be baptized with, and how am " I ftraitned till it... | |
 | Soame Jenyns - 1790 - 310 pages
...fubmitted to drink it, as the only means to accomplifh that benevolent end ; and, in proof of it, fays, " No " man taketh my life from me, but I lay " it .down of myfelf*." No doubt of its poffibility could arife from any other caufe, for furely it was not only... | |
 | Thomas Porter (Unitarian.) - 1793 - 228 pages
...examination of the paflages which Mr. Hawker quotes as relating to this part of his argument. John x. 18. No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myjel/ : I havt power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; THIS COMMANDMENT HAVE i... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Theology - 1805 - 622 pages
...not what they do3.' 3. Which is yet a higher ftep, he fuffered all this willingly, and cheerfully, ' No man taketh my life * from me, but I lay it down of myfelf 4.' ' I have a * baptifin to be baptized with, and how am I ftraitened 1 Manh. xxvii. 18.... | |
 | Sir Matthew Hale - Christianity - 1805 - 632 pages
...what they do 3.' 3. Which is yet a higher ftep, he fuffered all this \\illingly, and cheerfully, * No man taketh my life ' from me, but I lay it down of myfelf *.' ' I have a ' baptifm to be baptized with, and how am I flraitened 1 Matth. xxui. 18.... | |
 | William Christie - God - 1810 - 276 pages
...receive commands from the Father, and to give an unreserved obedience to these com. mands. John x. 18. ' No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Samuel Finley - Presbyterian Church - 1811 - 550 pages
...sacrifice for us. He was under no previous constraint ; subject to no compulsion. This he tells us himself; No man taketh my life from me ; but I lay it down ofmystlf. John x. 18. Thus it was his own free choice ; and this consideration prodigiously enhances... | |
 | Johann Jacob Rambach - Lutheran Church - 1811 - 452 pages
...his head, and gave up the ghost.' Here wo may recollect a former saying of the Lord Jems, namely, * No man taketh my life from me ; but I lay it down of myself,' (John x. 18.) He delivered up his soul as a precious pledge into the hands of his Father,... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1844 - 496 pages
...sense, be said to come down from heaven. Is not this idea naturally suggested by the Lord's saying, "No man taketh my life from me; but I lay it down of myself; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." (John x. 18.) The truth... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1825 - 512 pages
...universe he was master of himself, and had a right to dispose of his own life ; so he himself declares : " No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself; I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again." He submitted voluntarily... | |
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No man taketh my life from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. 
