 I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall...  A Collection of Theological Tracts - Page 267by Richard Watson - 1791Full view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1827 - 512 pages
...an officer as we have supposed, from what the apostle subjoins in the following verse ; " For I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand." It seems the aged apostle, under the influence of a strong desire to have the church well... | |
 | Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - Lord's Supper - 1828 - 464 pages
...be enabled to look back on the world I am leaving, and all its interests, and to say, — " Now am I ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand, — I have fought a good fight, — -I have finished my course, — I have kept the faith,... | |
 | Henry Clissold - Christian biography - 1829 - 716 pages
...as their memories could serve them to write them down soon after. " I am going the way of all flesh. I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. Knowing therefore that shortly I must put off this tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ... | |
 | Cornelius Roosevelt Duffie - Sermons, American - 1829 - 444 pages
...death bed of the righteous, and see with what composure a Christian can die. Hear one exclaim, I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of glory, which the Lord, the righteous Judge,... | |
 | John Nelson (Primitive Methodist preacher.) - Sermons, English - 1830 - 454 pages
...in prospect of death. Hear the pious boast of one of the greatest veterans in our christian cause. " For I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fonght a good fight, I have finished my. course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth,there... | |
 | William Romaine - Christian life - 1830 - 650 pages
...through a life of continual and great sufferings, and to triumph in the prospect of a violent death : " I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand : I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith ; henceforth... | |
 | John Bickerton Williams - Dissenters, Religious - 1830 - 356 pages
...sinking under the load. As soon as he saw me, he said, ' O son, you are welcome to a dying father, I am now ready to be offered up; and the time of my departure is at hand.' A little after midnight my mother holding his hands as he sat in bed, and I holding the pillow... | |
 | William Ashmead - Sermons, American - 1830 - 522 pages
...against that day." Attend likewise to another remarkable passage from the pen of the same apostle : " 1 am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith. Henceforth there... | |
 | James Sigston - Methodism - 1830 - 256 pages
...the above upon your heart and bless you in all things. Live, O live, till I meet you above! ' I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand.' Pray for your father; pray for the church; pray for the world. Plead, O plead with God, and... | |
 | John Hincks - Sermons, English - 1832 - 554 pages
...the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept." Or this, from the second to Timothy : " For I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there... | |
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