...unless / testify them to you. We are to remember that Jesus came not of himself (ch. vi. 38); that he came not to do his own will, but the will of his Father. He came as a witness of those things which he had seen and known (ch. iii. 11), and no...

...himself; — an everlasting spirit, which came forth from God, and was sent down into a house of clay, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. He knows the world ; — the place in which he is to pass a few days or years, not as an inhabitant,...

...great work for the salvation of souls. Such was the love of the Son of God, who came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. " He pleased not himself." Glorious and most sublime example of complete unselfishness! Such a life,...

...And O how beautifully it was exemplified in him 1 He pleased not himself. He came down from heaven, not to do his own will, but the will of Him that sent him. His meat was to do it, and to finish his work. " O, my Father, if this cup may not pass from me except...

...endeavouring to fill the station in which my Master has placed me, often remembering that He himself came not to do His own will, but the will of Him that sent Him. When I am weary I think of His words,' The night cometh when no man can work;' and this incites me...

...to his Divine Master, who, though equal with God, became subject to man ; who came into this world not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him, who became obedient to death, even the death of the cross, and who bids us, if we would be his disciples,...

...in the Divinity of his doctrine ; because it did not originate from himself, but came from God. As he came not to do his own will, but the will of God, so he spake not his own words, but the words of God. He said, " My doctrine is not mine, but his...

...his creatures. To deliver from this, the Saviour came and acknowledged that he was not his own : that he came not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. Not but it was his own will, but not apart from the will of the Father. The Saviour has by thus giving...

...made to say, I am greater than myself. He says repeatedly, that he is sent from God; that he is come, not to do his own will, but the will of him that sent him. If Christ and the being that sent him are the same, then he is come to do his own will, and, at the...

...conformity to the will of a superior ; and the great example proposed to us, is that of our Saviour, who came " not to do his own will, but the will of him who sent him." From these observations it follows, that to constitute a work formally good, it must...