 Elder at least, for he traveled extensively, and had much to do, not only in regulating the societies, but also in sending the preachers here, there, and yonder. He was zealous, laborious, would not build on another man's foundation, but formed new circuits...  The History of Methodism in Kentucky - Page 435by Albert Henry Redford - 1870Full view - About this book
 | Enoch Pond - Missions - 1824 - 282 pages
...saw him turned unto the Lord." — It was a declaration of Paul, and made long before his death, " that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the gospel of Christ." Indeed, so laborious were the primitive disciples, in the work of spreading the gospel, that Paul repeatedly... | |
 | Thomas Shaw Bancroft Reade, Thomas S. B. Reade - 1832 - 436 pages
...With these bowels of compassion and earnest longings for the salvation of sinners, he told the Romans, that, " from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the Gospel of Christ." The Lord, whom he so faithfully served in the Gospel of his Son, sustained him amidst all his labours,... | |
 | Richard Burgess - 1832 - 356 pages
...neighbouring Church of Cenchrea; and, in enumerating the countries through which he had passed, he tells them, that, from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the kingdom of God ; so that he describes a wider field of his labour than that recorded in the Acts. St.... | |
 | William Fleming - 1838 - 646 pages
...of Albania. Illyricum is only mentioned by St Paul in the Epistle to the Romans, where he observes that " from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the gospel of Christ,". Rom. xv. 19. — " The words import," says Dr Paley, " that St Paul had come to the confines of Illyricum,... | |
 | 1845 - 624 pages
...and also how wide had been the sphere of his ministry, and how diligently he had laboured therein ; so that from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the Gospel of Christ. (Rom. xv. 19). So that he was not one whit behind the chiefest of the apostles in knowledge, and had... | |
 | Robert Sears - Bible - 1845 - 688 pages
...where ..ow lies Croatia : and Dalmatla to the south, which still retains its name. St. Paul tells an, that " from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the gospel of Christ. (Rom. xv. 19.) So of penance and mortification, lest when he arrived thither he should be obliged U... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - Bible - 1845 - 588 pages
...the apostle by his imprisonment. It had previously remained open for a series of years, Rom.xv.i9. so that from " Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the Gospel of God." But by his imprisonment now for four years the Eph. vi. 20. door in providence had been shut.... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Bible - 1845 - 540 pages
...great this share might be — he could not avoid the direct statement of his own apostolical work, in that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum he had fully preached the gospel of Christ. 'Through mighty signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God.' It is not likely that Paul would... | |
 | Josiah William Smith - 1846 - 212 pages
...of Asia, and "all the churches of the Gentiles." In the Epistle to the Romans, St. Paul declares, " that from Jerusalem and round about unto Illyricum he had fully preached the Gospel of Christ*;" and in the Epistle to the Colossians, that the Gospel "was preached to every creature which is under... | |
 | Thomas Binney - Pastoral theology - 1849 - 140 pages
...this was what the apostle did. His priestly function, he goes on to say, consisted in this : — " that, from Jerusalem, and round about unto Illyricum, he had fully preached the Gospel of Christ." " Tea," he adds, " so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where Christ was named, but, as it is... | |
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