| William Mason - Devotional calendars - 1765 - 522 pages
...soul from the pit, to be enlightened with the light of the living," Job xxxiii. 29, 30. MARCH 25. — Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me. — 2 Pet. i. 14. Nothing but the life of Jesus, manifest in our flesh, can... | |
| George Fox - 1803 - 436 pages
...mortality is swallowed up of life, in which house from heaven they will not groan." "Peter said, ' I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,...put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me/ 2 Pet. i. 13, 14. So Peter knew he must put off this tabernacle shortly ; but... | |
| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...threatenings, and promises of the Gospel, " though ye know them, and be established in the present truth. Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,...remembrance ; knowing, that shortly I must put off this tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath sbewn me." He desires at such a season, to address the... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up, by putting you in remembrance ; 14 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. 15 Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be able, after my decease, to have... | |
| Philip Doddridge - Theology - 1805 - 632 pages
...of the former. For the apostle speaks of his death as very near at hand : / think it meet, saith he, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up...put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me ; (chap. i. 13, 14;) and ecclesiastical history informs us, that the apostle... | |
| James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 594 pages
...xv. 24. That after the judgment, Christ will deliver up the kingdom to the Father, we VOL. v. 66 1 4 Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. 15 Moreover, I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these... | |
| John Jones - 1812 - 1054 pages
...present truth : yet I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to encourage by reminding you ; knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ declared to me : so I will endeavour to enable you, after my departure, to make mention of the... | |
| Missions - 1863 - 904 pages
...choosing the 2nd Epistle of St. Peter, 1st chapter, 10th to 17th verses, in which occur the words, ' I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,...put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath showed me." She had then resigned herself wholly to await the approach of death. One month... | |
| 1828 - 498 pages
...of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." (2 Cor. v. 1.) So the apostle Peter, " Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me." (2 Peter i. 14.) Such an anticipation of mortality is as necessary for youth... | |
| 1824 - 452 pages
...he selected was peculiarly solemn and impressive : his discourse was founded on 2 Peter i. 12—15. "Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle,...put off this my tabernacle; even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me, " &c. The effect of this discourse on the audience, was such as I have never... | |
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