 | 1855 - 544 pagine
...the marks of the Lord Jesus; always intent on performing the work which had been given them to do, so that they might finish their course with joy, and...they had received of the Lord Jesus, " to testify the Gospel of the grace of God." They attacked sin in its strong-holds. They carried on an unceasing... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1855 - 608 pagine
...bonds and imprisonment," and of death itself ; yet, have they " not counted 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." Inheriting their apostolic faith and order, and emulating their devotion... | |
 | John Horsford - 1856 - 298 pagine
...enterprise on which men burning with Divine love for human souls were restless to enter, " not counting their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might...which they had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God." Many a noble spirit fell in the battle-field, fighting bravely against... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1830 - 576 pagine
...; for whom they suffered the loss of all things : Accounting not even their fives dear to them, to 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. Now the Apostles knew whether Christ was what he professed himself... | |
 | Andrew Manship - 1856 - 430 pagine
...part. The means and men will be ready, I trust, for every emergency. There are those who do not count their lives dear unto themselves so that they might finish their course with joy. The lamented young Young Stocker. " Cast down, but not destroyed." Stocker was on the eve of going... | |
 | 1857 - 920 pagine
...the side of those who maintained the new doctrine, and who counted not their lives dear unto them, so that they might "finish their course with joy,...which they had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God." In the year 1523, Hamilton again appears at St. Andrew's. This was... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pagine
...as their game the elect of God, and made havoc of his Church, have been transformed into such that counted not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their course with joy, and testify the Gospel of the grace of God. Characters like unto the lion in ferocity, have forgotten to... | |
 | William Tanner - 1858 - 164 pagine
...boldness, and yet in meekness, to confess their Lord, and to manifest their allegiance to Him, not counting their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might finish their course with joy. Does not their example also call loudly upon us to consider whether the foundation on which we ourselves... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1858 - 698 pagine
...place ; they considered it as belonging to themselves; "they counted not their lives dear unto them, so that they might finish their course with joy, and the ministry they had received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God." Let us not think that... | |
 | Ashton Oxenden - 1858 - 314 pagine
...Apostles, you will find it very good for you to trace the course of those early followers of Christ, who counted not their lives dear unto themselves, so that they might bear the Saviour's cross after Him here, and wear His crown hereafter. Or, if you are reading one of... | |
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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... 
