| Missions - 1796 - 612 pages
...mara-tialba." And the same Apostle says to the Colossians, «.' If ye then be risen wi:h Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the...; set your affections on things which are above." When the Holy Spirit reveals to the conscience for salvation, the glory of Christ's divinity, and the... | |
| William Jones - Theology - 1801 - 354 pages
...argues the Apostle in the words of the text : if ye be risen with Christ, says he, seek the things that are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God : set your affection on things above. If he has overcome death, and we as members of him are partakers in that... | |
| Theophilus Browne - 1805 - 274 pages
...taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Since ye have been ' raised up with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your minds oh the things above, not on the things upon the earth ; for ye have died to the I It ings of... | |
| Children - 530 pages
...joyful season to the young who read these lines, and may they be led by the Holy Spirit to seei those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. ELIZA. ANECDOTES. WHEN Socrates was one day walking through a market, and looking at the various articles... | |
| John Evans - Religions - 1807 - 344 pages
...ma}i be invigorated, our hope enlivened, our charity confirmed, and our affections elevated to the things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God ! The veil now thrown over this preliminary state, and concealing from our view celestial objects,... | |
| Robert Coutts - Sermons - 1808 - 460 pages
...them. your habitual aim. " Look not at the things which are "seen, but at those which are not seen."* " If ye " be risen with Christ, seek those things which...right hand of " God. Set your affections on things above ; not -" on things on the earth."f The worldly are apt to overrate the value of their possessions;... | |
| William Paley - Sermons, English - 1808 - 402 pages
...dead, like as Christ rose from the dead. " If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things, that are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God; set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth; for ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ,... | |
| Joseph Hall - 1808 - 626 pages
...these sublunary vanities : Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth ; seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. There only shall you find true rest, and constant glory. 2. This for the Act of the Turning: the TERMS... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 632 pages
...these sublunary vanities : Set your affections on things above, ?iot on things on the earth; seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. There only shall you find true rest, and constant glory. 2. This for the Act of the Turning: the TERMS... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 502 pages
...but if even the faithful few who have chosen God for their portion, and whose affections are set on things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, are not exempt from the criminality of inordinate desires, — if these latter are conscious of an... | |
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