...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...