 | George Fox - 1831 - 512 pages
...also abounds with Christ.' 2 Cor. i. 5, 6, 7. And so it is no new thing for the Christians now, to be troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair, for our light afflictions which are but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1832 - 614 pages
...has had to sustain ? But it must be time enough for us to rest when we get to heaven. St. Paul was " troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyede :" " for which cause he fainted notf." So must it be with us : whatever progress we... | |
 | J. A. Sargant - 1832 - 288 pages
...trusted, had not deserted them in this time of need. They were indeed, " troubled on every side, but not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;" and thus, though shut out from all mortal help, their language breathed resignation... | |
 | 1831 - 604 pages
...is in this situation that the true force of his character exhibits itself. It is when we see him ' troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken of confidence ; regardless of suffering, because supported by the cause in which he suffered... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...nre, but not consumed ; or the ship suffering from the winds and waves, but not sinking. He may be troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; cast down, but not destroyed : and in his lowest circumstances he can chide and encourage himself... | |
 | Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware - 1833 - 420 pages
...lose courage or give over. In the words of the great Apostle, himself a model in this kind, "he is troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." Bruised and wounded, discomfited once and again, yet once and again he rallies; and... | |
 | 1833 - 424 pages
...lose courage or give over. In the words of the great Apostle, himself a model in this kind, "he is troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." Bruised and wounded, discomfited once and again, yet once and again he rallies ; and... | |
 | William Jay - 1833 - 722 pages
...fire, but not consumed ; or the ship suffering from the winds and waves, but not sinking. He may be troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; cast down, but not destroyed : and in his lowest circumstances he can chide and encourage himseli... | |
 | 1834 - 642 pages
...also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death." To the Corinthians—" 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." This train of reflection... | |
 | Henry HUGHES (Perpetual Curate of All Saints, Gordon Square.) - 1834 - 292 pages
...not according to that which we do ask;—to feel that, supported by his aid, the Christian is, though "troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;"^ and to apprehend, in all its fulness of peace and joy, the glorious truth, that nought... | |
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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. 
