 | Thomas Dale - 1831 - 400 pagine
...force of the whole Roman empire, " counting not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they may finish their course with joy, and the ministry which they had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." To what can we ascribe this total, this astounding, this even supernatural... | |
 | Irish pulpit - 1831 - 372 pagine
...of this sinful world," and " who should follow him through both good and evil report" — " counting not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their course with joy." It is often, however, urged by many persons, that the standard of religion is raised higher by those... | |
 | Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet - 1832 - 316 pagine
...the voluntary candidates for a perilous service, " neither counted they their lives dear unto them, so that they might finish their course with joy, and...which they had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." Of Hautia and his wife we could not but thus judge. As soon as we... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - 1832 - 334 pagine
...first restored her to primitive order and simplicity, and then counted not their lives dear unto them, so that they might finish their course with joy, and the ministry, which they had received from the Lord Jesus. Tell me not then, with such examples before the world, such unequivocal demonstrations... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1833 - 636 pagine
...i, 1 ; 2 Pet. i, I, they were wholly devoted to do his will, and promote his glory, not " accounting their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their course with joy, and Christ might be magnified by their bodies, whether by life or death." 24. " Had we, then, hitherto... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1833 - 404 pagine
...undertaking; they sacrificed every private interest, every selfish consideration; "neither counted they their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their course with joy," and be the means of accomplishing the salvation of their fellow-men. Even in our own times, many distinguished... | |
 | 1833 - 618 pagine
...of the house of Israel. Their prayer to God is, " Thai they may be saved." And not a few, " account not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their course wilh joy, and the ministry which they have received of the Lord Jesus, to lestify the gospel of the... | |
 | Robert Walker (Vicar of St. Winnow.) - 1834 - 232 pagine
...the excellency of the knowledge of 65 Christ Jesus their Lord ;"* " when they counted not their life dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their...which they had received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel of the grace of God."f After having foretold to his disciples the sufferings and death that... | |
 | 1841 - 596 pagine
...they that must give an account;" and such is their love for their Divine Master, that " they count not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they...their course with joy, and. the ministry which they have received of the Lord Jesus." Such is their high and holy calling. Who that ministers before the... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1839 - 630 pagine
...they that must give an account ;" and such is their love for their Divine Master, that " they count not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they...their course with joy, and the ministry which they have received of the Lord Jesus." Such is their high and holy calling. Who that ministers before the... | |
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Martyrs of the primitive ages, men whose praise is in all the churches, who counted not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their course with joy, and the ministry which they had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel... 
