...peradventure might be taught to sound that letter as well as they : but we believe, that " God' hath made them able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the spirit ;" and that the gospel ministered by them " comethb unto us not in word only, but also in power,...

...fufficiency is of God. Who aifo hath made us able minifters of the New Teftament ; not of the letter, but of the Spirit : for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. But if the miniftration of death, written and r.graven in ftones, was glorious ? fo that the children of ^ Ifracl...

...away."§ And all "this is of God, who hath made us able minifters of the New Teftament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit : for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. But if the miniftration of death, written and engraven in ftones, was glorious, fo that the children of Ifrael...

...flefhly tables of the heart. God hath made us " able minifters of the New Teftament; not of the " Letter, but of the Spirit : for the Letter killeth, " but the Spirit giveth life. But if the miniftra" tfon of death, written and engraven on ftones, " was glorious, fo that the children of Ifrael...

...attach no intelligent meaning to what they ask of God. Consider that word to the Corinthians — " God hath made us able ministers of the new testament ;...the Spirit ; for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life." (2 Cor. iii. 6.) The mere utterance of words is worse than vanity, if these do not express...

...together, for the edification of the people. " Our sufficiency (saith the apostle) is " of God, who hath made us able ministers of " the new testament,..." spirit.; for the letter killeth, but the spirit (< giveth life." The letter of the law, voided of its evangelical intention, leaves our bodies washed,...

...sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves ; but our sufficiency isof God ; 6 Who.also hath made us able ministers of the new testament ;...but of the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spi7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children...

...province to use before and after sermon his own conceived form. While vast numbers of clergymen, or 'ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit,' habituate themselves to the Collect-mode of addressing their Creator, multitudes fail to believe...

...happy is the man whom that inspires, 45 Line 45, &c. St. Paul says, " Our sufficiency is of God, who hath made us able ministers of the New Testament,...the spirit; for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life." There are some excellent observations upon this subject, in that admirable book, " An...

...testament ; rot of the letter, but of the spirit : for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 7 But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his...