 | 1847 - 660 pages
...unintentional cause of the soul setting his seal to the truth of 2 Cor. iv. 17 — that "light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.'' Then " Boast not ye sons of earth, Nor look with-scornful eyes ; Above your... | |
 | Christian biography - 1826 - 440 pages
...worthy to be compared with the glory that should be revealed in us. He saw that " our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." He -iooked not at the things which are seen, which are temporal, but a',... | |
 | Hannah More - English literature - 1827 - 542 pages
...shall be comforted.' — ' I will never leave thee nor forsake thce. '— ' For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' These quickened the pace, and sustained the spirits of the blind traveller... | |
 | Christian life - 1827 - 418 pages
...afflictions are not to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us; for our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." But when is it our privilege thus to reckon? the apostle tells us: " while... | |
 | John Angell James - Love - 1828 - 444 pages
...promised to them that love him ; in reference to which he so sublimely affirms, " Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." The view here given is that which is takeu also by Hammond and M'Knight.... | |
 | William Orme - Clergy - 1828 - 276 pages
...bountifully shall reap also bountifully." And the same apostle assures us, that "the light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Of the truth of these remarks, we have a very beautiful illustration in the... | |
 | William Orme - Clergy - 1828 - 310 pages
...bountifully shall reap also bountifully." And the same apostle assures us, that "the light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Of the truth of these remarks, we have a very beautiful illustration in the... | |
 | 1828
...of their present sufferings. " For which cause we faint not," says he ; " for our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." Heavy as these afflictions were, they teemed light when compared with the... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Future life - 1829 - 308 pages
...mortal frame, declares, in his own name, and in the name of all Christians — " Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal, weight of glory ; while we aim not at things which are vi. sible, but at those which are invisible... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Apologetics - 1829 - 412 pages
...our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day ; for our light affliction, which ia but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory:" 2 Cor. iv, 16, 17. Too many indeed there are, among men, to whom the moral... | |
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... our light affliction which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory... 
