| Children - 1836 - 498 pages
...these be Christians ?" she seemed to hear a voice which said, " VVhat is that to thee, follow thou me;" that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, may be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, at the appearing... | |
| Joseph Priestley - Sermons, American - 1805 - 398 pages
...ye greatly rejoice, though now, for a " season, ye be in heaviness through manifold " temptations ; that the trial of your faith (being " much more precious than of gold which perish" es) may be found unto praise, and honour, and " glory, at the appearance of Jesus... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, French - 1806 - 406 pages
...which God makes his children go through in this world. I select only one passage out of a great number, That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that pcrisheth, though it be tried roith fire, might be found unto praise and honor, and glory at the appearance... | |
| 1807 - 570 pages
...rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations : 7 That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 532 pages
...trying the piety of professors. It is used with this view in all the following texts : 1 Pet. i. 7. " That the TRIAL of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be TRIED by fire, might be found unto praise," Sec. 1 Cor. iii. 13. " The fire... | |
| Walter Wilson - Church history - 1808 - 584 pages
...glorious issue of them. On these Occasions he would often .repeat those animating words, 1 Pet. i.,8. " That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 512 pages
...worketh patience. 1 Pet. i. 6, 7. Now, for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold," &c. So the Apostle Paul speaks of that expensive duty of parting with our subs -stance to the... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...worketh patience. 1 Pet. i. 6, 7. Now, for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold," Sec. So the Apostle Paul speaks of that expensive duty of parting with our substance to the... | |
| William Huntington - Arminianism - 1809 - 568 pages
...by fire, faith (like gold) muft be tried; and peter informs us what this furnace is intended for, " That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perifheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praife, and honour, and glory, at the... | |
| William Romaine - Christian life - 1809 - 260 pages
...rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations ; and the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour, and glory, at the appearing... | |
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