...between you and your God. If. Ixv. 12. — I fo run [for an incorruptible crown] not as uncertainly: fo fight I, not as one that, beateth the air : But I KEEP my body under, &c. LEST that by any means &c. I myfelf (hould be a CAST-AWAY, i, I know whom I have...

...and lively faith." *Nor had St. Paul any doubt on the score of his election, for he snys, ver. 1C), " I therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so fight I, not as one that beatcth the air." But did this certainty, as to the issue of the combat, render the vigorous exertions...

...of us, in order to this end, under Divine grace, adopt the resolution and practice of St. Paul : " I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but 1 keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to...

...temperate in all things. Now, they do it to obtain a corruptible crown ; but we an incorruptible. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air : .27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that by any means, when I have...

...from sensible to spiritual pleasures, and says, he hath also an area, a race, a crown, a triumph. / therefore so run, not as uncertainly : so .fight I, not as one that beatfth the air. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection; lest that by any means tv/ien...

...the eyes of men, but such as inwardly hurt the humility and charity of his mind. St. Paul saith, / therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I,...one that beateth , ^ • the air. But I keep under m;/ body, and bring it i/lto subjection, lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I...

...temperate in a!l things. Now they do ii to obtain a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. 1 ilerefore so run, not as uncertainly ; so fight I, not as one that bcateth the air : but 1 keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, lest that by any means, when...

...service : it is a hard saying, and they cannot bear it. What saith the Apostle, 1 Cor. 9, 26, 21 ? So fight I, not as one that beateth the air : But I beat down my body, for so the word signifies, and bring it into subjection. But is there any such hardship...

...insecure, and even his salvation in danger, without this constant self-denial. " So run I, (says he), not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air." By which he plainly teaches us, that he who does not thus run, who does not thus deny himself daily,...

...their's is but a fading, transitory crown; >' • • r « V. . < •r*. :*•••..*•• TEXT. 26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly: so fight I, not as one that beateth the air. 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection ; lest that, by any 'means, when 1 have preached...