 | Walter Balfour - Future punishment - 1829 - 442 pages
...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 h« with- Christ which is far be tier : nevertheless to abide in I he flesh is more needful for you."... | |
 | Charles Hudson - Eschatology - 1829 - 224 pages
...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 and be with Christ; which is far better. Nevertheless to ahide in the flesh is more needful for you."... | |
 | Bible - 1871 - 582 pages
...week, he exclaimed, " Bless the Lord !" " I hope I do not wish to die merely to get rid of pain !" " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is for better." " To die is gain." These were some of the thoughts that escaped... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 630 pages
...the apostle Paul signifies, lhat if he should depart, he should be with Christ. Philip, i. 23. " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better:" 2 COT. v. 8. "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1830 - 364 pages
...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 strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better : nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And... | |
 | William Paley - Sermons - 1830 - 358 pages
...telling us, '.that he dwelt there two whole years in his own hired house.' ' . No. VI. Chap. i. 23. ' For I am in a strait betwixt two", having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better.' With this compare 2 Cor. chap. v. 8. ' We are confident and... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 632 pages
...my departing soul ; and I know whom I have trusted.' MR. BAXTER'S DYING THOUGHTS. PHIL. i. 23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be mth Christ, which is far better. (Or, for this is much rather to be preferred, or better. J SECT.... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...my departing soul ; and I know whom I have trusted.' MR. BAXTER'S DYING THOUGHTS. PHIL. i. 23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better. (Or, for this is much rather to be preferred, or better.) SECT.... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1830 - 618 pages
...the apostle Paul signifies, that if he should depart, he should be with Christ. Philip, i. 23. " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better :" 2 Cor. v. 9. " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 630 pages
...magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain 1 am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better ;" Phil. i. 20, 21.23. " To day shalt them be with me in Paradise... | |
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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ ; which is far better : nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 
