 | Missions - 1803 - 652 pages
...child, more than me, is not worthy of me : for whosoever loveth his life shall lose U; and whosoever loseth his life for my sake and the gospel's, shall find it in the life eternal. For what is a uiHii | rofited, if he should gain the whole world, and losa his... | |
 | John RYLAND (D.D.) - 1816 - 746 pages
...God is blessing them with usefulness in the midst of many privations and hardships. " He that findeth his life shall lose it, but he that loseth his life for my sake and the gospel's shall find it," is a maxim of the highest authority, and of very extensive application. But as to Mr. Fuller's removal,... | |
 | Thomas Young (minister of Zion Chapel, Margate.) - 1818 - 420 pages
...providence, received the money, sued for his estate, and in a term or two recovered his estate : " He that loseth his life for my sake, and the gospel's, shall find it." His blessed wife, in the midst of blessings, enjpying a loving husband, divers fine children, and a... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1848 - 590 pages
...; just according to the maxim, which holds good of nations as of individuals, that he that seeketh his life shall lose it, but he that loseth his life for Christ's sake and the gospel's, shall find it. But this can be the result only of the wide influence... | |
 | Arthur Philip Perceval - Bishops - 1833 - 48 pages
...consequences be never so tremendous. Yes, brethren, though exile or death were before us, we may not shrink. " He that saveth his life shall lose it, but he that loseth his life for Christ's sake shall keep it unto life eternal." Luke ix. 24. John xii. 25. Nevertheless, let us, if... | |
 | Elias Hicks - Quakers - 1834 - 244 pages
...Pharisees, which he could not do. without losing his spiritual life ; agreeably to his own doctrine, " He that saveth his life shall lose it : but he that loseth his life, for my sake and the gospel, the same shall save it." Thus he set an example to all his followers, that, in order to be... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1836 - 508 pages
...him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." "He that saveth his life shall lose it; and he that loseth his life, for my sake and the Gospel's, shall find it." As an internal experience of vital Christianity can be received only by a sacrifice of every inclination,... | |
 | Albert Barnes - Christianity - 1838 - 268 pages
...myself, if I may avoid that which is evil, and cleave to that which is right: for whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but he that loseth his life for thy sake shall find it. SELF-DECEPTION. Searcher of Hearts, suffer me not to dwell at ease in Zion,... | |
 | Prayers - 1838 - 314 pages
...myself, if I may avoid that which is evil, and cleave to that which is right: for whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but he that loseth his life for thy sake, shall find it. SELF-DECEPTION. Searcher of Hearts, suffer me not to dwell at ease in Zion,... | |
 | Patrick Welwood, John Anderson - Covenanters - 1841 - 334 pages
...to lay it down. But, as a minister of Christ's gospel, you know it is written — ' He that loveth his life shall lose it ; but he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.' " " It is so written," said the bishop, ' but the application you have made of... | |
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He that saveth his life shall lose it; but he that loseth his life, for my sake and the gospel's, shall find it. 
