 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...  The Ecclesiastical Observer - Page 831873Full view - About this book
 | Jean Calvin - Reformed Church - 1816 - 524 pages
...veracity of God, than taught by any demonstration of reason. The language of Paul also indicates this; " whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight." Whence we conclude, that the knowledge of faith consists more in certainty than in comprehension.... | |
 | John Brodhead Romeyn - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 470 pages
...always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (JPor 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 Lord. Wherefore we labour, that whether present or absent, we... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 538 pages
...alwayt confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lard : for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord. 2 Tim. i. 12. For the which cause I also suffer these things ;... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Conversion - 1817 - 510 pages
...— ' we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home,' or rather, sojourning, ' in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We Jf£ confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.'... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1817 - 680 pages
...spirit. Wherefore we arc always of good courage, and know that, while we are present in the body, 7 we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by 8 sight:) we are of good courage, I say, and desirous rather to be absent from the body, and to be... | |
 | 1817 - 842 pages
...in thé body, we are absent from thé Lord ; 7 (For we walk by faitb, not by sight :) : *i» ; H 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from thé body, and to be présent with thé Lord. 9 Wherefore we labour, that, whether présent or absent,... | |
 | Joseph Benson - Christian literature, American - 1817 - 630 pages
...which is from heaven ; — 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 to be present with the Lord. And we labour, whether present or absent, to be accepted... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...Till. SERMON III.* TRUE SAINTS, WHEN ABSENT FROM THE BODY, ARE PRESENT WITH THE LORD. 2 COR. v. 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, arid to be present with the Lord. THE apostle in this place is giving a reason why he went... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Devotional literature - 1819 - 396 pages
...of Paul ? JVe are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home, or rather sojourning in the body, we are absent from the Lord. {For we walk by faith, not by sight.} IVe are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord d : 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... | |
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