 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.  The Methodist Quarterly Review - Page 1211850Full view - About this book
 | 1817 - 842 pages
...for thé self-same thing is God, who also hath given anto us thé earuest of thé Spirit. 6 Therefore we 'are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in thé body, we are absent from thé Lord ; 7 (For we walk by faitb, not by sight :) : *i» ; H 8 We... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 pages
...Till. SERMON III.* TRUE SAINTS, WHEN ABSENT FROM THE BODY, ARE PRESENT WITH THE LORD. 2 COR. v. 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, arid to be present with the Lord. THE apostle in this place is giving a reason why he went... | |
 | 1819 - 488 pages
...that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life'. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord". We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1819 - 396 pages
...of Paul ? JVe are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home, or rather sojourning in the body, we are absent from the Lord. {For we walk by faith, not by sight.} IVe are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present... | |
 | David Harrowar - 1822 - 440 pages
...we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life. — Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are...confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." 2 Cor. 5. 1.— 6. In his epistle to the Hebrews, he speaks... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...dissolved, vte have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : tee are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body,... | |
 | John Venn - 1822 - 460 pages
...dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens: therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. We are confident, and willing rather to l>e absent from the body, and... | |
 | George Hay (bp. of Daulis.) - 1822 - 402 pages
...therefore, a little after he adds, " therefore, having always confidence, knowing, that while we are in the body, we are absent from the Lord, (for we walk by. faith and not by sight,) we are confident, I say, and have a good will to be absent rather from the body,... | |
 | Henry Kollock - 1822 - 510 pages
...Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? - - 60 SERMON LXXIX. DESIRE TO BF, PRESENT WITH CHRIST. 2 Cor. v. S. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. - 74 -* SERMON LXXX. HEAVEN A STATE OF PERFECTION IN KNOWLEDGE.... | |
 | Luke Booker - 1822 - 192 pages
...are always confident, knowing, that whilst we. are at borne in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." I am sensible, this text may be alleged as a proof of the soul's... | |
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