| William Huntington - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...are not to 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...believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake," that God may count you worthy of the kingdom for which ye also suffer. The heart must know and feel... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...overpast ; that the storm shall not fall till you be safe in Zoar ; or that, if it should be given you in behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; yet, that your light afflictions, which are but for a moment, shall work out for you a far more exceeding... | |
| William Hammond - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 320
...unless he have it from thence ? To this, we may adjoin the testimony of the Apostle Paul, Phil. i. 29. Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not...to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. The apostle, in the foregoing verse, is encouraging the Philippians under trials and afflictions, and... | |
| William Paley - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...for the 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...to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me." Phil. ch. i. 29, 30. " God... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 488
...those who are exercised thereby. " Uato you/' AaS saith be, (writing to the Philippians, i. 29.) " it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." But what doth he say concerning the other, Romans vii. 24. " O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver... | |
| 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 304
...he is the meritorious cause of them, that are not used with reference to forgiveness. Phil. i. 29. " Unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also, to suffer for bis sake." Here, faith in Christ and a willingness to suffer for him, are said to be given lo believers... | |
| Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...not, therefore, hinder sowing. Affliction, when sanctified, is a gift : It is GIVEN, says the Apostle, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his name. Affliction, indeed, is the only gift, for which we are not commanded to pray ; but a wise and... | |
| Ezra Stiles Ely - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...something given to the sinner by the Holy Spirit. "It is the gift" or the grace "of God." Ephes. ii. 8. " Unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on, him, t)ut also to suffer for his sake." Philip i. 29. Jesus is said to be, iHeb. xii. 2.) "the author and... | |
| Church of England, Sir John Bayley - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 738
...and cast .him for Christ's sake is mentioned in verse 29 as a gift ; " To you it is given in jhe " behalf of Christ, not only to believe on " him, but also to suffer for his sake." (y) " The bowels," &c. ie the ex- v.$. treme of Christian love. See ante 66. note on Col. iii. i2.... | |
| Jean Calvin - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 606
...the following declaration of Paul: " Unto you it is given for the love of Christ (vrif x(>m') n°t only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." (/{) VI. But the inquiry made by Lombard and the schoolmen, whether Christ merited for himself, discovers... | |
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