 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the...  The National Preacher - Sida 2551849Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Ann Mason Freeman - 1831 - 228 sidor
...and as a confirmation, I took my Bible and sealed with my own blood that scripture, (2 Cor. v. 8,) "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and be present with the Lord." '25th. — I left home again. I have the assurance the Lord... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 sidor
...are eternal." a In like manner he pursues a strain of sentiment, very similar to that in the text : " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour that, whether present dr absent, we... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1831 - 666 sidor
...whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight.) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." " For the which cause I also suffer these things : nevertheless... | |
 | 1831 - 412 sidor
...By S. Cheffins. Palmer. Mr. Cheffins founds his discourse on St. Paul's words, in the 2 Cor. v. 8. " We are confident, I say, and willing, rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." From which, he first describes the persons who can, in... | |
 | 1832 - 488 sidor
...' are at home in the body we are ' absent from the Lord ; (for we ' walk by faith, not by sight :) we ' are confident, I say, and willing ' rather to be absent from the body ' and present with the Lord."g These two Scriptures are very embarrassing to Dr. Burnet an'd... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 sidor
...church ? 2 Cor. v. 6. 8. "Therefore we are always confident, knowing, that while we sojourn in the body, we are absent from the Lord : We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." But certainly, to be present with the Lord, which the Apostle... | |
 | John Bovee Dods - 1832 - 222 sidor
...verses 6, and 7. "Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body andpresent with the Lord." While in the body, though they had many consolations in the faith... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - 1833 - 572 sidor
...whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith, not by sight) : we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord .-" 2 Cor. v, 1 — 8. So, again, to the Philippians, he... | |
 | Samuel Gover Winchester - 1833 - 156 sidor
...vii. 16. Which prompted the apostle to say, "For me to live is Christ, to die is gain." Phil. i. 21. " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." 2 Cor. v. 8. " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having... | |
 | 1833 - 650 sidor
...my spirit." Acts vii. 59. The holy, heavenly confidence of Paul, when he said to the Corinthians, " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." 2 Cor. v. 8. The great apostle's vehement longing for his own... | |
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