 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...Scriptures 1 Not at all. The Scriptures take notice of no such interval ; but plainly enough deny it: " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." 2 Cor. 5 : 8. No sooner parted from the body, than present with... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.—Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are...from the body, and to be present with the Lord." The want of a conviction and belief of this, is probably the occasion of remissness in professors, and... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - Spiritual life - 1804 - 320 pages
...(i. e. eter" nal glory) is God, who also hath given ".unto us the earnest of the Spirit. " Therefore we are always confident, " knowing that, whilst we are at home " in the body, we are absent from the " Lord: for we walk by faith, not by " sight. We are confident, I say, and *'... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...immortal glory, and in testimony of it, had " given them the earnest of the spirit;" he adds, " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We ¡ire confident, f say, und... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Westminster Assembly - 1806 - 308 pages
...as also the company of angels and souls of other saints in their glory, 2 Cor. v. 6, 7, 8. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sigh' :) we are confident, I say, and willing... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...us for the selfsame thing zs God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: . • . 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight: 8 We are confident, / say,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...glory ; that so mortality might, without any sensible pain, be swallowed up of life. V. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. Therefore, howsoever nature is ready to shrink at the thought of dissolution,... | |
 | Eliza Hunt - 1808 - 138 pages
...Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy righthand there are pleasures for evermore."—Psalm xvi. 11: "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."—2 Cor. v. 8. THE last sigh is hush'd; and the spirit... | |
 | Robert Traill - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 600 pages
...affords, and his people now enjoy here, is, in regard of this, but absence from the Lord: 2 Cor. v. 6, 8. Knowing that -whilst -we are at home in the body,...confident, I say, and -willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present -with the Lord. I am sure, that there are few Christians, but think, that... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...also the company of angels, and ihe souls of other saints in their glory. 2 Cor. v. 6, 7, 8, Therefore we are always confident, knowing that •whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing... | |
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We are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord :—we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. 
