 | John Platts - 1827 - 688 pages
...glory, which thou hast given me : for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 2 COR. v. 8: We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. PHIL. i. 23: I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire... | |
 | George Bull - Christian life - 1827 - 514 pages
...(or rather conversant) in the body, we are absentfrom the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present (or conversant) with the Lord. Where two things are in the first place... | |
 | Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (1802-1822) - 1827 - 522 pages
...are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in. the body, we areabsent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Phil. i. 33. For, I am in- a strait betwixt two, having... | |
 | Charles Hudson - Future punishment - 1827 - 324 pages
...including all the nations of the earth. Another scripture to the same purpose is 2 Cor. v. 8, 9, 10. "We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labor that, whether present or absent, we may... | |
 | William Cogswell - Families - 1827 - 558 pages
...are always confident, knowing, that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour that whether present or absent, we may... | |
 | William Jay - Christian life - 1828 - 408 pages
...the Saviour, in whom dvvelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, you niay reckon ; and you will reckon, and reckon supremely, if you are a Christian....and to be with Christ, which is far better." " We art confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." What... | |
 | William Dodd - 1828 - 522 pages
...were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, &c. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord, &c. Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade... | |
 | Walter Balfour - Eschatology - 1828 - 374 pages
...whilst we an? at home in the body we are absent from the Lord.'' And again, at verse 8, he says, " we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." In confirmation of this view, Macknight says in his fourth... | |
 | Johnson Grant - 1828 - 210 pages
...insensibility? 80 And the apostle, speaking to the faithful in Corinth in general, joins them thus with himself: "We are confident, I say, and willing, rather to be absent from the body ; —literally, to go into a foreign country from the body, — and to be present with the... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Apologetics - 1829 - 342 pages
...are always confident, knowing that while we " sojourn in the body, we are absent from the Lord ; " we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be " absent from the body, and present with the Lord." (a) Here the expression, " present with the Lord," as a necessary consequence of the reasoning,... | |
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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the... 
