...attention to the duties of the pastoral office? Did ever martyrs take more cheerfully than they did the spoiling of their goods, knowing that in heaven they had a better and an enduring substance ? Did the witnesses for the truth at any different time from their's of the church's...

...bound, but to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus ;" and the first Christians " suffered joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing that in heaven they had a better and enduring substance." What remains, then, but that the Christian soldier be admonished to look well...

...possessions from love to his name, and that they might promote the interests of his kingdom. They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing, that...heaven they had a better and more enduring substance ; they accounted " all things as loss in comparison of the excellency of, Christ Jesus," and reckoned...

...therefore, went forth rejoicing in tribulation for Christ's sake, and the true Protestant faith, " taking joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing that in heaven they had a more enduring substance." (To be continued.J SKETCHES OF CONTINENTAL LITERATURE. BY THE REV. HENRY...

...to the gibbet. Speak we of our Puritans and worthies ; these are the confessors of our own age who take joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing that in heaven they have a better and an enduring substance. Thank you, illustrious men ! for the noble example you have...

...possessions from love to his name, and that they might promote the interests of his kingdom. They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing, that...heaven they had a better and more enduring substance ; they accounted " all things as loss in comparison of the excellency of Christ Jesus," and reckoned...

...among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ." And so said the Hebrew martyrs ; they " took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing that in heaven they had a better, even an enduring substance." And so say you. I might appeal to numbers who are here present as to the...

...of the Lord Jesus Christ — may he willing to sacrifice their worldly interest — may he willing to take joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing that in heaven they have a hetter and a more enduring suhstance. The ministers of the Free Church of Scotland have not...

...possessions from love to his name, and that they might promote the interests of his kingdom. They took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing, that...heaven they had a better and more enduring substance ; they accounted " all things as loss in comparison of the excellency of Christ Jesus," and reckoned...

..." They wandered in deserts and in mountains, and in dens and in caves of the earth;" but "they took joyfully the spoiling of their goods, knowing that in heaven they had a better and an enduring substance." Often in the moorland solitudes, concealed from the vigilant eye of their persecutors,...