 | Isaac JAQUELOT - 1829 - 420 pages
...that such is not the case ; for he says, " But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour. Yet what I shall choose I wot not ; for I am in a...strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and to be with Christ, which is far better f." Let us then devote a few moments to the attentive examination... | |
 | Charles Hudson - Eschatology - 1829 - 224 pages
...cannot evade their force. The first passage 1 shall adduce is Phil. i. ai— 24, "For to me to lire is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour; yet what I 'hall choose, I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart... | |
 | James Nourse - 1829 - 292 pages
...in my body, whether it be by life, or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. 21 But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor; yet what I shall 22 choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to 23 depart, and to be with... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1830 - 364 pages
...which is from heaven ; knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. Yet what I shall choose I wot not ; for I am in a...nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance... | |
 | Alfred Addis - Prophecy - 1830 - 602 pages
...live is Christ ; and to die is gain. Yet what 1 shall choose I wot not. For I am in a straight betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ;...nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. See also St, John, Vid. n. Dig. i. Sect. ii. which upon second consideration according to p. xi. 1... | |
 | Edward Maltby (bp. of Durham.) - 1831 - 422 pages
...continuance in life would be more useful to the cause he had espoused, and the converts he had made. " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart,...nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Now ; can this be the language of enthusiasm, or the language of imposture? Does it not seem to be... | |
 | British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...will be magnified in his body, whether it be by life, or by death. " For," he says, "to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour : yet what I shall choose, I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart,... | |
 | Irish pulpit - 1831 - 372 pages
...anticipated, and what he ardently desired, as we find expressed in Phil. i. 21—24. " To me to live is Christ, and to die is gain : but if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour ; yet, what I shall choose, I wot not : for I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to... | |
 | Alexander Copland - 1832 - 586 pages
...certainly are not 1 absent from the body.' " St. Paul, in his Epistle to the Philippians,t says — " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire...Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." — " I would ask any reasonable man," gays Dr. Watts, "to determine whether, when St. Paul speaks... | |
 | John Hincks - Sermons, English - 1832 - 554 pages
...gospel) is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ,...nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." Or this, from the first epistle to the Corinthians: " If in this life only we have hope in Christ,... | |
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For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor ; yet what I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better: nevertheless,... 
