| 1813 - 580 pągines
...fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord,— x 2 Cor. v. 13. For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God ; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause. Ver. 14. For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then... | |
| Jacob Stanley - 1813 - 158 pągines
...appear eccentricity to frozen-hearted formalists and "gentle theologues," he would probably have said, " Whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God ; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause : for the love of Christ constraineth us ; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were... | |
| 1825 - 618 pągines
...prayed. The Rev. W. Thorpe, of Bristol, preached from 2 Cor. v. 13, and part of 14th verse. " JVIiethcr we be beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause ; for the love of Christ constrained! us. The preacher consider! dl. The greatobject of the labour... | |
| Alexander M'Leod - 1813 - 166 pągines
...he spake and taught diligently the things of the Lord. (x) 2Cor. 5. 13. For -whether we he besides ourselves, it is to God : or whether we be sober, it is for your eause. For the love of Christ eonstraineth us. (t/) Col. 4. 12. Epaphras, who is one of you, a wrvant... | |
| 1814 - 570 pągines
...always eonfident, knowing that, whilst wo are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : 13 For whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for your eause. 1* For the love of Christ eonstraineth us; beeause we thus judge, that if one died for all,... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1814 - 198 pągines
...men. Such an enthusiasm, he expresses, when he says, (2 Corinth, cvv 13, 14.) " Whether we be besides ourselves, it is to God, or whether we be sober, it is for your cause ; for the love of Christ constraineth ih ~ s'1 er hand, there is danger of a counterfeit, pernicious... | |
| Thomas Scott - 1816 - 192 pągines
...affection for the souls of men. Such an enthusiasm, he expresses, when he says, (2 Corinth, cvv 13, 1'4.) " Whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God, or whether we be sober, it is for your cause ; for the love of Christ constraineth us." Of such nn enthusiasm as this I wish I were far from guilty.... | |
| 1816 - 566 pągines
...divine authority, and the promotion of human happiness, that they could reply, to all such charges, " Whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God ; or, whether we be sober, it is for your cause." They fulfilled their commission, patiently submitting to bonds and imprisonments ; evincing the divinity... | |
| Daniel de Superville - 1816 - 436 pągines
...attention to the glory of God and the good of the church. " For," says he immediately before our text, " whether we be beside ourselves, it " is to God : or whether we be sober it is for " your cause." That is, — My whole life is employed for God and for the faithful. If I am in extasies, if I sometimes... | |
| Isaac Milner - 1820 - 462 pągines
...evidently foresaw that he would probably be suspected by them of an unsoundness of intellect, when he says, "Whether we be beside ourselves, it is to God; or whether we be sober, it is for your cause." In imputations of this sort there is nothing new. The messenger of the prophet Elisha, when he went... | |
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