 | Daniel Wilcox - 1744 - 454 pages
...reproach of Chrift greater riches than the treafures of Egypt, Heb. xi. 25. For our light afflictions that are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. iv. 17. By this therefore jhall the iniquity of Jacob be purge dt and... | |
 | Thomas Halyburton - 1756 - 306 pages
...Nat unto us, not unto us, but to thy name, 0 Lord, be ihepraife. Our light afflitxions that endure but for a •moment, -work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. I'll get the martyrs crown, with the minifterof Chrift's crown ; and O but... | |
 | 1807 - 672 pages
..."»j!ca! he hath begun the good werk, he will entry it on till'the day of Jesus Christ." " These light afflictions which are but for a moment, . work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of giory." Oh the precious blood of Christ, that cleanselh from all sin!" Observiug... | |
 | 1799 - 614 pages
...thus powerfully fupports him, he will anfvvcr in the words of the Apoftle : " Our light sfrliftions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." — " Blcfled is the man which endurcth temptation (or affliction), for,... | |
 | Nathaniel May - 1793 - 320 pages
...weeping, bearing precious feed, [hail doubtlefs come again witk joy, and bring his Jheaves with him. Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us afar more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.. The redeemCc ed of the Lord /hall return, and come... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1794 - 508 pages
...the called according to his purpofe."t " For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and an eternal weight of glory." J Fifthly, When we behold a holy and righteous God thus feverely punifhing, what may be deemed, by... | |
 | Robert MacCulloch - 1794 - 738 pages
...patience, refignation, and fortitude ; and make all our prefent, light, and momentary afffictions to work for us a far more exceeding and an eternal weight of glory. -Amidft all our perplexities, when difi ratted with doubts and difficulties, let us truft in the Lord,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1792 - 728 pages
...of men.) Shall we not be infinite gainers by them ? Gainers for ever and ever ! Seeing theft light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory! 7. And are we not by the confcioufnefsof our prefent weaknefs effectually... | |
 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1799 - 466 pages
...3H calamity that tends to crufli this frail tenement ot clay, is only haflening our paflage? " For our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while \ve look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which... | |
 | Robert Walker - 1799 - 408 pages
...that of fin perpetual. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning ; and thefe light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Should they continue throughout our whole lives, yet even that is but a moment,... | |
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May our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things unseen and eternal. 
