 | Robert Traill - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 544 pages
...apostle seems to call this a higher matter, than the honour of believing, Phil. i. 29. For unto you it it given in the behalf of Christ ', not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. Let us pass these, and consider wherein there is an honouiing of God by... | |
 | William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...present distress ; I say that it is good for a man so to be." 1 Cor. ch. vii. 25, 26. *' For unto you it is given, 'in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear... | |
 | Edward Williams - Clergy - 1810 - 348 pages
...sense of any writer, particularly biblical writers, ROB. "When he wrote to the Philippians, " unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe oil him, but also to suffer for his sake/' He considers sufferings as gifts of the liberality of God,... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...are ye saved, through faith ; and that not of yourselves ; it is the gift of God."* " For unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake."t The disciples of Christ prayed him to increase their faith.% Christ... | |
 | John Owen - Bible - 1813 - 620 pages
...consecration of it for us. All the glory and honour of the world is not to be compared with theirs, unto whom it is " given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him," Philip, i. 29. 1 Pet. iv. 14 — 16. Thirdly, He hath thereby made them useful... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...present distress ; I say that it is good for a man so to be." 1 Cor. ch. vii. 25, 26. " For unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1813 - 630 pages
...the disciples a token of salva* Kcmarkt on Philifi. ii, 6. tion and that of God. For to you says he, it is given, in the behalf of Christ^ not only to believe on him, but to suffer for hi* sake. That they might be prepared for evil report, and to endure hardness as good soldiers, he... | |
 | Timothy Alden - Epitaphs - 1814 - 302 pages
...of Christ among our «hiefest privileges, according to what is written in Philip. 1. 29. for to you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. But I must break olf abruptly from writing, as I often do from preaching,... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that nf God. 29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to sutler for his sake : 30 Having the same eonfliet whieh ye saw in me, and now hear to be in... | |
 | William Huntington - 1815 - 730 pages
...be compared with the glory of God's grace, which is, and which is to be, revealed in us: " Unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake," that God may count you worthy of the kingdom for which ye also suffer.... | |
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