 | William Carus Wilson - 1840 - 644 pagine
...to our weary hearts, " yet joy cometh in the morning." '' These light afflictions," saith St. Paul, "which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding weight of glory." Have patience, brethren, until the coming of the Lord ; ye have need of patience.... | |
 | Andrew Ramsay - 1821 - 500 pagine
...for us than we ourselves can do, and that he will make the " light afflictions of the present " life, which are but for a moment, work " out for us a far more exceeding and e" ternal weight of glory." Surely it well becometh us, his subjects, to follow him in the path which... | |
 | 1822 - 872 pagine
...suffice. It may be remarked, in general, that the promised rest infinitely outweighs the past toil. Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us an exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Heaven is a rest from all those things which before were... | |
 | Ashbel Green - 1824 - 500 pagine
..."For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God — and that these light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." ttepine not then at the faithfulness of God, though it be manifested in this... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 500 pagine
...you are just going ' to be dissolved and be with Christ:' then he stammered out, word after word, • Our light afflictions; which are but for a moment, work out for us a fai more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. He immediately closed his eyes, squeezed my hand, and... | |
 | Elias Carpenter - 1824 - 650 pagine
...affliction. But, let such look for the reward set before them, — let such say with Paul, " These lighter afflictions, which are " but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceed" ing and eternal weight of Glory." Bewildered with religious contentions in the early part of... | |
 | 1825 - 312 pagine
...to refer all sufferings whether consequential or penal to this glorious state, and thus demonstrate, that "our light afflictions which are but for a moment, work out for us, a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." ' . 58 Christian Repository. The ability of this exalted personage to interpret... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1825 - 330 pagine
...you are just going 'to be dissolved and be with Christ:' then he stammered out, word after word, ' Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' He immediately closed his eyes, squeezed my hand, and then said, ' God is... | |
 | John Wesley - 1825 - 742 pagine
...what he had suffered : so that all these trials are unspeakable gain. So many ways do these "light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ! " 7- Add to this, the advantage which others may receive, by seeing our behaviour... | |
 | William Paley, Edmund Paley - 1825 - 604 pagine
...to try him. This is to sanctify our sufferings — making, that is, " our light affliction, which is but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." But, indeed, to speak the plain truth, it is not those who are brought to... | |
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May our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things unseen and eternal. 
