 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1829 - 584 pages
...were willing to have - '--'' ..-. I SECT. fciv. Christian practice it the chief sign to ourselves. 313 you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travel, labouring niyht and day.—Ye are witnesses, and... | |
 | James Stuart M. Anderson - 1829 - 776 pages
...nurse cherisheth her children ; so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear to us." (ver. 7. 8.) Here shines 20 forth the true trustee of all the love of God to man in his gospel,... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - Christian education - 1829 - 738 pages
...cherisheth her children, so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear recorers for Us our forfeited inheritance, but shows us God our reconciled Father; mid presents Us... | |
 | Bible - 1829 - 414 pages
...desirous of you," he says to the Thessalpnians, " we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us :" we were willing not only to have fed you with the sincere milk of God's word, but also the very... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1830 - 606 pages
...I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy • and rejoice with you all; and, Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. Reputation to some is more dear than life, and it is worse than death to be held a malefactor, to be... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1830 - 528 pages
...If I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all :' and ' Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.' Reputation to some is more dear than life, and it is worse than death to be held a malefactor, to be... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1897 - 1040 pages
...to the Thessaloniaus : " But we were gentle a?nong yon, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." There is here Paul's paternal and even maternal interest in men, if so be he might reach them. What... | |
 | Franklin Jones Firth - Bible - 1912 - 594 pages
...her own children : 8 even so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were well pleased to impart unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were become very dear to us. 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail : working night and day,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1827 - 506 pages
...constraineth us," &c ; and, " being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls ; because you were dear unto us." Our fathers were distinguished by their zeal, earnestness, and unremitting... | |
 | Arminianism - 1837 - 1014 pages
...Jesus's sake." (2 Cor. iv. 5.) " We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...souls, because ye were dear unto us." (1 Thess. ii. 7, 8.) Examine the object which Christian Ministers seek to accomplish. Is it secular, sordid, or selfish... | |
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So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 
