 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...Christians, to be perfect? he doth acknowledge that he was not perfect. Philip. iii. 12, 13, Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect;...which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, &c. Therefore the perfection which he had attained, which he... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...bringing me into captivity to the law of sin, which is in my members. Phil. iii. 12. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect...that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. i Gal. v. 17. For the flesh luMeth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh : and these... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1810 - 432 pages
...I am called, may love what I am, (by the grace of God :) or rather what " I follow after, if that 1 may apprehend that, for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." 1. THE distinguishing marks of a Methodist are not his opinions of any sort. His assenting to this... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 pages
...though I had already " attained, either were already perfect} but I " follow after, if so be that 1 may apprehend " that for which also I am apprehended of " Christ Jesus ;" and that is a perfect freedom from sin, and a full conformity to the image of God. The first object... | |
 | James Meikle - Travelers - 1811 - 476 pages
...attaine-d : " Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." If this was the confession of the great apostle, what must I say, who am but just getting my head through... | |
 | James Meikle - Meditations - 1812 - 384 pages
...attained. " Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." If this was the confession of the great apostle, what must I say, who am but just setting my head through... | |
 | Missions - 1838 - 716 pages
...unto his death : if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect...that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. I count not myself to have apprehended ; but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are... | |
 | 1831 - 492 pages
...words burn, for example, in that manly confession which he makes in writing to the Philippians: — " I follow after ; if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus." The figure is that of a willing captive following his victor, who, though he will not loose his hold,... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons, English - 1815 - 552 pages
...resurrection of the dead." These are the words of an anxious man. " Not," then he proceeds, " not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect...which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not my-r self to have apprehended, but this one thing I do ; forgetting those things which... | |
 | 1815 - 608 pages
...12. Not as though Iliad already attained to all, or were already perfected, but I follow alter, if I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 1 S. Brethren, I coin it not myself to have attai&edj but this one thing I can say, forgetting the... | |
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Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. 
