 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1813 - 480 pages
...St. Paul's character is engraven in the forehead of our fortune : We are troubled on. every side, but not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good? (I Pet.... | |
 | Jedidiah Morse - 1814 - 218 pages
...innocence, as to the charges brought against me, I can with truth adopt the language of the Apostle; " Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." (2 Cor. iv. 8, 9, 10.) Unpleasant and painful as is the duty now devolved on me, gentlemen,... | |
 | Ralph Eddowes - 1817 - 236 pages
...dying; yet in reality he was always rejoicing — rich, having wherewith to make many so ; although troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not utterly destroyed. Yes ! there was a principle of inward support, which rendered him not merely... | |
 | 1819
...their minds, when they come to the Lord's table, may often be like that described by the apostle, " Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down,, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of... | |
 | 1819 - 784 pages
...thnir minds, when they come to the Lord's table, may often be like that described by the apostle, " Troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of... | |
 | 1819 - 614 pages
...which would otherwise spring from the trying and calamitous events of life. The true believer may be " troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed ;" looking meekly up to heaven, he resigns his will to the will of his Creator, knowing... | |
 | 1838 - 794 pages
...sorest ills of life mentally see " heaven open, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God ;" be " troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ?" Then, with the assistance of God's Holy Spirit, make this, which must surely be your... | |
 | John Leland - 1819 - 422 pages
...even in tribulation :" they were, as St. Paul expresseth it, as "sorrowful," yet " always rejoic"ing; troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, " but not in despair ; as having nothing, but possessing all " things I" and performed tilings which would otherwise have... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - 486 pages
...such a triumphant voice as proclaims the complete victory which he had gained over the evils of life ! Troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed : For, though our outward man perish, our inward man is renewed, day by day. * Such,... | |
 | Alexander Shanks - 1820 - 442 pages
...house is founded on the rock. Hence he uses, concerning his state, these extraordinary expressions: "Troubled on every side, yet not distressed; "perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not for"saken; cast down, but not destroyed. — As dying, and be"hold we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, "yet... | |
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Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus. 
