 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...so, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not ths gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." So also he speaks of his " bowels of love," Phil. i. 8. Philem. 5, 12, and 20. So he speaks of his... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...10. Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. For ye remember, brethren, our labor and travel, laboring night and day. Ye are witnesses, and God... | |
 | John Newton - 1808 - 712 pages
...being affectionately desirous of you, " we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the " Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because " ye were dear unto us." No comment can do justice to the spirit of this sentiment, or to the force of the expression in the... | |
 | John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pages
...and to labour with our might for their good. The words of the Apostle should never be forgotten by us. " Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and uubiameably we behaved among you who believed, as you know how we exhorted and commanded and charged... | |
 | John Newton - Theology - 1810 - 726 pages
...being affectionately desirous of you, " we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the " Gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because " ye were dear unto us." No comment can do justice to the spirit of this sentiment, or to the force of the expression in the... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1810 - 390 pages
...Virginia, July 13, 1758, at the ordination of the Rev. Messrs. Henry Patillo and William Richardson. gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." The connexion seems to be this — " As a nurse cherishes her children," that is, as a tender mother,*... | |
 | Church of Scotland - Presbyterianism - 1810 - 636 pages
...So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. Ver. 1 1. As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, anil charged every one of you, as a father doth... | |
 | James Macknight - Bible - 1810 - 430 pages
...affectionately desirous of you.we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel r „ ' .' ,8 p oi Ood only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 9 For ye remember, brethren, our labour and tra6 Qwte ^YftovWeg £% av$po7icoi> &>£av, ovre a$' $... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Prayer - 1810 - 326 pages
...; being so affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the gospel only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 2. Diligent, sincere, and frequent preaching of the word unto them, with administration of all ordinances.... | |
 | William Warburton, Richard Hurd - Theology - 1811 - 412 pages
...exhortation of St. PAUL in his pastoral letter to the Thessalonians " You know (says he) how we '' exhorted and comforted, and CHARGED every " one of you, as a father doth his children, that you " walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his " kingdom and glory *."... | |
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But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children: so being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 
