| Samuel Disney - 1788 - 464 pages
...PROPHETS, p. 249, 263, and 279, DISCOURSE XVII. PHILIPP1ANS III. 7, 8. BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THOSE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST. YEA, "DOUBTLESS, AND I COUNT ALL THINGS BUT LOSS, FOR TH5 EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD. p. 295. DISCOURSES XVIII, XIX,... | |
| George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...righteousness, as St. Paul, the converted Pharisee, did, who says, Phil. iii. 7. " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the... | |
| John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...Paul, after all his personal attainments and distinctions, said ; " But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." 6. Men must come to the knowledge... | |
| John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...divine master deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance : " Those things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the... | |
| Robert Leighton, George Jerment - Theology - 1806 - 468 pages
...love him not at all. The apostle St. Paul's love was of this size8. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom 1 have suffered the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. Phil. iii. 7, 8. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, and do count them but dung that... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...thp flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of Go4' Phil. iii. 7, 8. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge cf Christ Jesus my Lord, and do count them but dung that... | |
| Thomas Scott - Religion - 1808 - 586 pages
...it is that St. Paul uses such decisive language on this subject : " What things were gain '" to me, those I counted loss for Christ: yea, " doubtless and I count all things but loss for the " excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus " my Lord, for whom I have suffered... | |
| Charles Buck - Christian ethics - 1808 - 332 pages
...triumph' does he declare to the Philippians the effects of his conversion ! " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I haye suffered the... | |
| Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky - 1828 - 436 pages
...archers shot and grieved the* ; | And rais'd, like him, a Prince at lajt. What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the... | |
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