| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 638 páginas
...desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. And we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from...confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord; and therefore labour, that whether present or absent, we may be... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 680 páginas
...hath given us the earnest of the Spirit." (Ver. 5.) " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord ; we are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that... | |
| Timothy Dwight - 1830 - 588 páginas
...Therefore we are always confident, knowing, that while we are at home in the body, we arc ab" sent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. In this passage the Apostle declares expressly, that to... | |
| William Jay - 1830 - 302 páginas
...are a Christian. "Ah," says Paul, " I long to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better." "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." What would every thing be in his absence! Could the place, the... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 616 páginas
...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, &c. "Ttfow also Christ shall be magnified... | |
| 1830 - 154 páginas
...release from the toils of life desirable to himself. He seemed to feel as the apostle did when he said, " We are confident, I say, and willing rather, to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." To a pious friend he expressed the hope, and settled conviction,... | |
| James Parsons - 1830 - 554 páginas
...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."* Nor was such certainty confined, as some have affirmed,... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 590 páginas
...we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. (For we walk by faith, and not by sight.) We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord ;" 2 Cor. v. 1,2. 8, 9. Though the abode of the godly in the flesh... | |
| 1849 - 1188 páginas
...signify continuance in the present life. He says : " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from...confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord." He esteemed it desirable that his present life should terminate,... | |
| British preacher - 1831 - 756 páginas
...with hands, eternal in the heavens. We are always confident, knowing that while 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, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we... | |
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