 | Reformed Church in America - 1815 - 290 pages
...saved- through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God." Eph. ii. 8. " And unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him," &c. Phil. i. 29. ART. VI. That some receive the gift of faith, from God, and others do not receive... | |
 | Theology - 1816 - 304 pages
...meritorious cause of them, that are not used with reference to forgiveness. Phil. i. 29. " Unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also, to suffer for bis sake." Here, faith in Christ and a willingness to suffer for him, are said... | |
 | Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 488 pages
...those who are exercised thereby. " Uato you/' AaS saith be, (writing to the Philippians, i. 29.) " it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." But what doth he say concerning the other, Romans vii. 24. " O wretched... | |
 | William Hammond - Salvation - 1816 - 320 pages
...have it from thence ? To this, we may adjoin the testimony of the Apostle Paul, Phil. i. 29. Unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. The apostle, in the foregoing verse, is encouraging the Philippians under... | |
 | William Paley - 1816 - 396 pages
...present distress ; I say, that it is good for a man so to be." 1 Cor. ch. vii. 25, 26. " For unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me."... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely - Faith - 1816 - 240 pages
...to the sinner by the Holy Spirit. "It is the gift" or the grace "of God." Ephes. ii. 8. " Unto you it is given, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on, him, t)ut also to suffer for his sake." Philip i. 29. Jesus is said to be, iHeb. xii. 2.) "the author and... | |
 | Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt - Theology - 1816 - 572 pages
...not, therefore, hinder sowing. Affliction, when sanctified, is a gift : It is GIVEN, says the Apostle, in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his name. Affliction, indeed, is the only gift, for which we are not commanded to... | |
 | 1817 - 368 pages
...preserved during several dreadful persecutions 5 but the time was now at hand, when it was " given to him in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake." It is not improbable, that he had a presentiment of his impending sufferings... | |
 | Edward Atkyns Bray - Sermons, English - 1818 - 458 pages
...he says it shall receive an hundred fold, with PERSECUTIONS. He even grants us sufferings : unto you it is GIVEN in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to SUFFER for his sake. So that the sting of the serpent is now the tempter : his bite and his... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake; having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in meb.... | |
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For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake ; 30 Having the same conflict "which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me. 
