 | David Austin - 1796 - 542 pages
...be the foundation of our hope. The penitent will fay with the Apoftle, Phil. iii. 8. Tea douhtItji, and I count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge ofCbrift Jefus my Lord: for whom I have fuffrred the lofs of all things, and do count them but dung,... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1796 - 36 pages
...to our neceffities ? — Is itconfidered by us as "the power of God and the wifdom ofGod?"h- Do we " count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Has God mined in our hearts to give us thefe views ?k— [it?"'— Or does Satan yet blind our eyes... | |
 | William Sawers - 1796 - 330 pages
...of ; and if, from your hearts, you fincerely refblve folve to pay a due obedience to Chrift, and to count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of him, who is our Lord, and to find him, you would fuffer the lofs of all things without murmuring, and... | |
 | John Owen - 1797 - 252 pages
...yourielves ; it is the gift of God. Not of works, left any man man fhould boaft," Eph. ii. 8— 10. '" Yea doubtlefs, and I count all things but lofs, for the...and do count them but dung that I may win Chrift, and be found in him ; not having mine own righteoufnefs, which is of the law, but that which is through... | |
 | John Wesley - 1794 - 738 pages
...Life ? The Apoftle fays, " The things that were gain to tne, thofe J " counted lofs for Chrift. Yea, doubtlefs, and I count all •' things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift 41 Jefus my Lord : for whom I have fuffered the lofs of alt 11 things, and do count them but dung,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1790 - 736 pages
...can. And fo, 1 milt in God, I (hall do, while tbe breath of God is in my noftrils. But what then ? I count all things but lofs, for the excellency of the knowledge of Jefus, my Lord ! Still I give up every plea befide, Lord, I am damn'd ! but thou haft died ! Dublin,... | |
 | John Pearson - 1797 - 632 pages
...abfolute obedience to him, that we may be railed Phil. iii. g. to the true temper of St. Paul, who counted all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus our Lord, for whom hefuffered the lofs of all things, ana accounted them but dung, that he might win... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1798 - 382 pages
...Not fo the apoftle — " * what things " were gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for Chrift j " yea, doubtlefs, and I count all things but lofs for " the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus " hly Lord, if by any means I might attain to the " refurrection of the dead ; not as though I had... | |
 | Methodist episcopal church - 1798 - 192 pages
...they are determined not to know any thing, fave Jefus Chrift, and him erucified ; yea, doubtlefs, and count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus their Lord : for whom they have fuffered the lofs of ali things, and do count them but dung, that they... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 630 pages
...merchant, felling all, that you may cleave to him as your only riches, faying with Paul, " Yea doubtlefs, I count all things but lofs, for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrill Jefus my Lord ?" Do you efteem him, and the riches of grace that are in him ? for " to you that... | |
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I count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord: for whom I have fuffered the lofs of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Chrift... 
