 | Edward Cooper - 1838 - 306 pages
...strengtheneth them." Though " troubled on every side, yet they shall not be distressed ; though perplexed; yet not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed."* Such is the general meaning of the promise. Let the subject however be further investigated. Let some specific... | |
 | James P. Miller - 1839 - 524 pages
...not only messengers to tell others of the Lord's goodness, but we are monuments of it ourselves ; " troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." This text leads us to speak, first, of the ministry of the gospel, next, of the peculiar... | |
 | William Campbell - 1839 - 610 pages
...to make themselves mean and contemptible by embracing ours. But amidst evil report and good report ; troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in their body, the dying of the Lord Jesus ; the brethren persevered... | |
 | American education society - 1839 - 496 pages
...Jesus. Under the trials which attend him in his work, it prepares him to say, with an apostle, "we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed,...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." It leads him to delight in every thing which pertains to God ; in divine truth with... | |
 | 1839 - 920 pages
...Jesus. Under the trials which attend him in his work, it prepares him to say, with an apostle, " we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." It leads him to delight in every thing which pertains to God ; in divine truth with... | |
 | 1839 - 584 pages
...they were led constantly to expect. And under this they had peculiar support and divine aid. " We are 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." Vet we shall, in all... | |
 | Daniel Wheeler - 1839 - 308 pages
...an increasing tempest around us; Charles and myself sat down together, it being fifth-day, though ' troubled on every side, yet not distressed, perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted,' again and again, but verily, ' not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed,' however much like two... | |
 | William Palmer - 1883 - 344 pages
...unexampled — a Church rising above all opposition, doing the Lord's will more and more effectually — " 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... | |
 | Frederic William Farrar - 1884 - 512 pages
...perfect compatibility, nay, the close union of joy with sorrow: and myriads of Christians who have been " troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed," can understand how the Man of Sorrows, even in the days of His manhood, may have lived... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1884 - 400 pages
...Paul's character is engraved 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 ?" For, indeed,... | |
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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. 
