 | William Paley - 1823 - 382 pagine
..." lest I should be exalted above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to...buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure." After what you have heard, you will not wonder, that this same St. Panl should pronounce himself to... | |
 | John Thornton - 1823 - 196 pagine
...was severely tried with a thorn in the flesh, buffeted by a messenger of Satan, he says, " For this I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me. My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness." Such an animating answer encouraged... | |
 | Robert Calef - 1823 - 324 pagine
...blessed angels, but the evil ones, in it, as 2 Cor. xii. 7, And lest I should be exalted above m< asure, there was given to. me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of satan to buffet me. 1 Sam. xvi. 14, 15 & 23, dm evil spirit from the Lord troubled him, &c. It IK a great truth, that we... | |
 | 1823 - 242 pagine
...hronght forward. Paul says " there was given to me a thorn in the flesh ; for this thing I hesonght the Lord thrice that it might depart from me, and he said unto me, My grace ia sufficient for time ; for my strength is made perfect in weakness." As the apostle has given the... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 326 pagine
...infirmity : " Lest I should be exalted," says he, " above measure, through the abundance of revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buifet me." Thus then, in both epistles, the notice of his infirmity is suited to the place in which... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pagine
...— " And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words." — "For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me," Luke xviii. 1. ; Matt. xxvi. 44. ; 2 Cor. xii. 8.* * The reformed churches of Christendom, sticking... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1823 - 610 pagine
...purpose of examining the principles on which they are explained in these volumes. ' Concerning this, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Corinth, xii 9. ' But may our God and Father himself, and... | |
 | 1823 - 624 pagine
...purpose of examining the principles on which they are explained in these volumes. ' Concerning this, I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee. 2 Corinth, xii. 9. * But may our God and Father himself, and... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 462 pagine
...above measure, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the Hesh/the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. PARAPHRASE. 2 Lord. I knew a man b , by the power of Christ, above fourteen years ago, caught up into... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 466 pagine
...through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh,' the meseenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. PARAPHRASE. 1 If I must be forced to glory a for your sakes ; (for me it is not expedient) I will come... | |
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For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of... 
