 | John Wesley - Biography - 1796 - 666 pages
...exhort you by the Lord Jefus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to pleafe God, fo ye would abound more and more. For this is the will of God, even your fanftification. For God hath not called us unto uncleannefs, but unto holinefs," t ThefT. iv.... | |
 | 1805 - 590 pages
...rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." And to the Philippians he said, " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better." 2. The scriptures plainly hold forth, that there will be no... | |
 | 1814
...will excite an affectionate -toleninity in the mind of the-contemplative reader : Phil. i. 23. — "I am. in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, (.which is far better." 2 Tim. i. 10.— ".Who hath abolished death, and hath brought... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour : yet what I shall choose, I wot not. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better : 24 Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.... | |
 | 1804 - 438 pages
...But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - Theology, Doctrinal - 1804 - 416 pages
...expressed himself in the following manner : " For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; whichis far better : nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you."... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...glorified by me ; yet whether of the two I should choose, life or death, I cannot resolve. I. 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: For I am much straitened, and distracted in the choice: having,... | |
 | Christianity - 1809 - 454 pages
...thee. My soul thirsieth •or God, for the living God, when shall I come and appear before him." " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be wiih Christ, which is far better." For it i* more desirable to be where he ¡ч clearly seen... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Phil. i. 23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. With Acts iii. 2 1 . Whom the heaven must receive, until the times... | |
 | Robert Trail - 1810 - 530 pages
...is immediately. attended with a state of presence with the Lord ! And in Phil, i. 23. he says, For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ. Departing and being wsth Christ, are joined together, as inseparable. As soon as Paul... | |
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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: 24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 
