 | S. Lee - Apologetics - 1830 - 510 pages
...which is the same thing, be reprobate? My answer is: It is said, indeed (Phil. i. 29), — " Unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;" to which the passage (Eph. ii. 8), — " For by grace ye are saved through... | |
 | Presbyterians - 1832 - 460 pages
...rejoicing that others displayed the same dauntless spirit. Thus he writes to the Philippians : " Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." But who, then, it may be asked, are to be denominated bigots ? We answer... | |
 | Andrew Mitchell Thomson - 1830 - 528 pages
...with which they had been adulterated and overlaid; — and not from our forefathers, to whom it was " given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake," whose lot fell upon those evil times which called forth the spirit of... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock, Thomas Smart Hughes - Theology - 1830 - 500 pages
...goodness, faith.' So, in the Epistle to the Philippians, the Apostle tells them, ' It is given unto them in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake :' where the Apostle's doctrine is manifestly this ; that both to believe... | |
 | Thomas Sherlock - 1830 - 500 pages
...goodness, faith.' So, in the Epistle to the Philippians, the Apostle tells them,' ' It is given unto them in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake :' where the Apostle's doctrine is manifestly this ; that both to believe... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1831 - 624 pages
...present distress ; I say. that it is good for a man so to bo," 1 Cor. ch. vii. 35, 86. " For unto you h, composes, as we have seen, the main benefit that the community rec also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to bo in me... | |
 | George Fox - Society of Friends - 1831 - 518 pages
...oftheflesh,he will persecute him that is born after the spirit, the true believers in Christ ; for ' unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake.' So this gift is not only to believe, but also to suffer for his sake,... | |
 | Obadiah Jennings - 1832 - 274 pages
...while I attempt to investigate one other saying of the great apostle: " For unto you (Phil. 1:29,) it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but to suffer for his sake." This passage, both in the letter and spirit of it, seems to correspond with that in the epistle to... | |
 | John Davenant, Josiah Allport - Bible - 1832 - 612 pages
...to drink in common of the royal cup. In this sense also it is said in Philippians i. 29, i;->ilo you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. From what has been said of these two virtues we gather, That they are... | |
 | Augustus Montague Toplady - 1832 - 328 pages
...by the arm of the Lord which sastaineth them; for the apostle Paul says to the Philippians, unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, thus we have nothing to boast of, we are indebted to the power of divine... | |
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