| James Bean - 1810 - 344 pàgines
...comforts of the present life; yea, so may we learn to estimate the things that belong to our peace, as to count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. Blessed be thy holy Name for offering these greater mercies to us miserable sinners, without money,... | |
| 1853 - 840 pàgines
...counts all he has done nothing worth in comparison of Christ. " I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord." — Phil. iii. 8. — Sickersteth's Treatise on the Lord's Supper. A SERMON BY THE REV. PHILIP HENRY. Communicated by... | |
| Thomas Snell Jones - 1822 - 646 pàgines
...to every believer. Under their influence let us, my dear friend, learn daily that glorious lesson, to ' count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord ;' and think it our highest honour, that as we can do so little for Christ, we should be in some way... | |
| T. Sharp - 1822 - 158 pàgines
...attainments and endowments, she declared, with St. Paul, ''That she counted all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord." Phil. iii. 8. Thus she wisely accounted .all human learning as worth but little, unless used as a handmaid to religion.... | |
| Thomas Snell Jones - 1824 - 554 pàgines
...to every believer. Under their influence let us, my dear friend, learn daily that glorious lesson, to ' count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord ;' and think it our highest honour, that as we can do so little for Christ, we should be called in... | |
| Thomas Snell Jones - 1824 - 544 pàgines
...to every believer. Under their influence let us, my dear friend, learn daily that glorious lesson, to ' count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord;' and think it our highest honour, that as we can do so little for Christ, we should be called in some... | |
| 1852 - 1174 pàgines
...extracted is valuable. Marsh was one of those witnesses who, in the time of bloody Queen Mary, was enabled to count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord. We owe much in this day of liberty, through the Lord's blessing, to the sufferings patiently endured... | |
| 1828 - 546 pàgines
...insertion. His Lordship's poetical talents rise far above mediocrity; and were he brought in good earnest to " count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord," we hesitate not to say, that he would be excelled by few of the sweet singers in our Israel. But we... | |
| Thomas Wright (of Borthwick, Scotland.) - 1828 - 464 pàgines
...to " burn within them," — or, in the words of the Apostle, when warmed with the same meditations, to " count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord." In the last place, there is still wanted a work of another kind, and requiring for its execution a... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 596 pàgines
...to know nothing but Christ crucified ;" and all things should be counted " but loss and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord." (Phil. iii. 8.) " That we may be able to comprehend with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth and... | |
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