...consolations, which imparted ample animation to their minds, and perseverance to their efforts. — " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed. — Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day." " As unknown,...

...troubled on every side, without were fightings, within were fears."* And yet say with the same apostle, « We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed."! It is not meant by this to condemn an earnest desire to abound in hope, or a frequent...

...than was theirs ; yet it nowise be2Cor.iv.8. reaved them of hope or courage: We, they could ' say, are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed. 5. We should indeed not so much as faint or languish in our minds upon any such occasion...

...help of his countenance;' and after the holy Apostles, who in their most forlorn estate could say, ' We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed.' 7. A willingness to continue, during God's pleasure, in our afflicted state, without...

...the way. This is his emblem — a bush burning with fire and not consumed. This is h is motto — " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." — This is his experience — " I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me."...

...and that in some humble measure I may bear resemblance to the picture an apostle drew of himself, " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed," — " approving ourselves as the ministers of God by honor and dishonor, by evil report...

...peril, or sword 1 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him that loved us."* > " ch Nero lay, of having ordered the city to be set...to this report, he laid the guilt, and inflicted t not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of...

...chastisement as would be no chastisement at all!] Is not Affliction suited to mortify the flesh? " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair ; Persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of...

...them, be not anxious or distressed at the loss. The Apostle says, We are troubled on every side, but not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair : persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed. . . . The time is short : it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though...

...reduced in spirit ? Had his heart entirely failed him ? By no means : hear himself on the subject. — "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." * Chap Ivii. —And he adds — but " we faint not ; for though our outward man perish,...