| John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...honour to be employed in such a cause, and count not my life dear unto me, so that I may finish ray course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus. My brethren are heartily employed in their labour of love. I do not doubt but we all have an... | |
| Philip Doddridge - 1803 - 680 pages
...said, Neither bonds nor imprisonments move me ; nor do I count my life dear unto me, that 1 may finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord ; . But while I insist on such expressions as these, I do in part anticipate what I am to offer under... | |
| Walter Wilson - 1808 - 652 pages
...Christ, who hath loved me, and given himself for me; not counting my life dear to myself, so I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God."* How long Dr. Griffith continued in prison we find... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1817 - 510 pages
...will come in its due time : eternity is long enough to enjoy it, how long soever it be de922 layed : but if I will do that which must obtain it for myself...salvation, and to ' finish my course with joy, and the ministry committed to me by the Lord.' Use VI. As it is on earth that I must do good to others, so... | |
| John Owen - 1826 - 578 pages
...of his. 2. They value him above their lives. Acts xx. 24. ' My life is not dear that I may perfect my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus.' Let life and all go, so that I may serve him, and when all is done, enjoy him, and be made... | |
| Gerard T. Noel (Hon.) - 1826 - 144 pages
...life. " None of these things move me ; neither count I my life dear unto me, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus Christ, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God." Such a mind was, in fact, allied to God;... | |
| Daniel Wilson - 1826 - 572 pages
...these things, will he say, move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the Gospel of the grace of God. If these things then be so; if the success of the... | |
| Oliver Reywood - 1827 - 634 pages
...Thou, who art the searcher of hearts, knowest that I count not my life dear to me, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. By the strength of God, 1 will keep on in my work... | |
| Oliver Heywood - 1827 - 634 pages
...Thou, who art the searcher of hearts, knowest that I count not my life dear to me, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. By the strength of God, I will keep on in my work... | |
| Robert Hall - 1832 - 660 pages
...me : but none of these things move me ; neither count I my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my course with joy, and the ministry I have received of the Lord to fulfil it. The love of ease or the indulgence of secular ambition would be fatal to the object you... | |
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