| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 416 pages
...thing of a minister's trials ; and I believe Paul had a peculiar reference to them when he said,—' If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable.' * * # * " The attention to religion continues among us, and has much increased within a few weeks.... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 460 pages
...of a minister's trials ; and I believe Paul had a peculiar reference to them, when he said- — " If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable." # # * * " The attention to religion continues among us, and has much increased within a few weeks.... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1839 - 510 pages
...of a minister's trials ; and I believe Paul had a peculiar reference to them when he said — ' If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable.' * * * * " The attention to religion continues among us, and has much increased within a few weeks.... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1799 - 152 pages
...observes, that one event happening to both, shows that both are vanity. And Paul says of christians, " If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable." Though even in this life, as related to a better, and as we ourselves are exercised about things of... | |
| Samuel Noble - 1830 - 266 pages
...is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished. If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable."! Here the plain scope of the Apostle's argument is explicitly declared. He is reasoning against those... | |
| Asa Cummings - 1830 - 530 pages
...of a minister's trials ; and I believe Paul had a peculiar reference to them, when he said — " If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable." ' The attention to religion continues among us, and has much increased within a few weeks. It seems... | |
| Henry Moore - 1830 - 468 pages
...offence towards God and towards man, in a world that lieth in the Wicked One." St. Paul allows, that " if in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable." But he again speaks the language of the general faith : " Whether," says he, " we live, we live unto... | |
| Robert Leighton - 1830 - 470 pages
...religion, if you take away the rewards; which, I think, the Apostle Paul hints at in this expression, If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men the most miserable. 1 Cor. xv. 19. The Apostle, indeed, does not intend these words as a direct proof... | |
| 1849 - 1188 pages
...to which true Christians, in the performance of duty, would in this world ever be exposed, that if in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable. But raising his eye of faith beyond the grave, and looking into the eternal world, and remembering... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1831 - 332 pages
...sovereignty, it is sometimes otherwise. The Apostles went through such temporal afflictions that they said, If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable. But even in this case such rich spiritual blessings are given, patience and resignation, faith, hope,... | |
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