 | John Foxe, Charlotte Elizabeth - Church history - 1843 - 388 pages
...seeming contradiction of this simple prayer, the feeling of Paul, " Having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better : nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." His last words were, " I am faint ; Lord have mercy on me, and take my spirit ;" and so he yielded... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1845 - 652 pages
...what I shall choose, I wot not ; for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.' Closing the book, he now commends hii household, in morning prayer, to their Father in heaven ; listens... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - Ecclesiastical courts - 1843 - 226 pages
...continue with us in the body for ever ? Although one of themselves said, I desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better, nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. He said this indeed, but how long could he remain here ? Could he continue to this time ? could he... | |
 | Reginald Courtenay - Future life - 1843 - 482 pages
...appeared to say the contrary. " I am in a strait betwixt two," he says, " having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." And shortly before, " to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.".* And again,-f " we are always... | |
 | John Seely Stone - 1844 - 640 pages
...what I shall choose, I wot not ; for I am in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Closing the book, he now commends his household, in morning prayer, to their Father in heaven ; listens... | |
 | Charles Simmons - Bible - 1844 - 552 pages
...what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. Nevertheless; to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. Righteous supported — Of the wicked — Peparation for. Rev. 14. 13. Blessed are the dead which die... | |
 | Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pages
...the text: " I am in a strait, I am straitened, betwixt two things, having a desire to depart and to be with CHRIST, which is far better; nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Whether he was then to live or die, he was in a kind of strait or agony, wondering how he might do... | |
 | John Seely Stone - 1844 - 636 pages
...shall choose, I wot not; for I am in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be witli Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Closing the book, he now commends his household, in morning prayer, to their Father in heaven; listens... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1845 - 452 pages
...poor, fatherless child. in. " For I am in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ; which is far better; nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." I lay as on the confines of three worlds. Life, death and sleep were there ; now this, now all; Yet... | |
 | Scotland Church of - 1845 - 768 pages
...or distress. Paul speaks of himself as " in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better : nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." But when death, though occasioning anxieties like these, is viewed as every Christian is privileged... | |
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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better :... 
