 | Wills - 1813 - 266 pages
...temptation ; to strive to enter in at the strait gate, not as though we had already attained, either were already perfect ; but we follow after, if that...for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus. We count not ourselves to have CHAP. VIiT.] Methodism, 8$c. 215 apprehended; but this one thing we... | |
 | 1841 - 472 pages
...belief of the truth ; not as though we had already attained, either were already perfect, but following after, if that we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus. I readily grant that if we can persuade ourselves that the sin which we have momentary evidence iu... | |
 | Charles Eyre - Bible - 1832 - 482 pages
...means we may attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though we had already attained, either were already perfect, but we follow after, if that...for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, we count not ourselves to have apprehended, but this one thing we do, forgetting those things... | |
 | Charles Watson - 1834 - 352 pages
...that we have not attained, neither are already perfect ; and may we be continually following after, that we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus. We thank thee, gracious God, for all thy goodness to us during the past day. Mercifully be with us,... | |
 | 1835 - 402 pages
...suffer not our cravings to abate till they are abated by thee, but keep us ever reaching after it, that we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of God. Tahe heed, and beware of coveteousness: for a man's life con. sisteth not in the abundance of... | |
 | John Jebb - Christian life - 1837 - 512 pages
...souls: we should " press towards the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God, in Christ Jesus, that we may apprehend that, for which also we are apprehended, of Christ Jesus." ' John Smith. Select Discourses. TWO SERMONS, BY RALPH CUDWORTH, DD SERMON I. THEY KNOW CHRIST, WHO... | |
 | Derwent Coleridge - Sermons, English - 1839 - 544 pages
...were already perfect; but we 1 Rom. viii. 29. * Rom. viii. Ii5 — 17. 3 1 Cor. iii. 21. 42Pct. i. 10. follow after, if that we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus'." But if a vital change and continued transformation be thus indispensable : if having been born again... | |
 | Richard Burdon Sanderson - Devotional calendars - 1854 - 458 pages
...This is the true Christian spirit, and to this we ought all to strive at least to attain ; following after, if that we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesns.4 ' Proverbs Hi, 5, 6. 2 Genesis iii, 5, 6. 2 Col. iii, 17. 4 Philiupians iii, 12. MARCH 4. "... | |
 | Salem - 1855 - 24 pages
...things let us have fervent charity,' in ' oneness of spirit,' looking upward, going forward, ' following after, if that we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus — of God our Saviour, who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the Truth.'... | |
 | Robert Jefferson Breckinridge - Presbyterian Church - 1859 - 812 pages
...we know him, and the power of his resurrection, as well as the fellowship of his sufferings ; and so we may apprehend that for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus." At present, we are dead, and our life is hid with Christ in God ; but Christ, who is our life, will... | |
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... follow after, if that we may apprehend that, for which also we are apprehended of Christ Jesus. 
