 | 1828 - 666 pages
...and all their character. " If Christ be not risen," says Paul, " then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that he hath raised up Christ." Thus does this apostle pledge his whole cause, his character as an honest man,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1830 - 588 pages
...and hope were but vain and delusory. " If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are found false witnesses...dead rise not : for if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised ; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins : then... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1830 - 484 pages
...fidelity as a witness. "But if there be no resurrection from the dead, then is Christ not risen. — Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, because...he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not." Where, we ask, would have been the mighty charm of this argument, if Paul's fidelity had been questioned... | |
 | Morning watch - 1830 - 814 pages
...then is Christ not raised ; and if Christ be not raised, our preaching is vain, and your faith also is vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God...raised up Christ, whom he raised not up, if so be that dead are not raised : for if dead are not raised, neither is Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised,... | |
 | John Shaw (of Bath.) - 1830 - 254 pages
...earnest of our own resurrection. St. Paul, in his first Epistle to the Corinthians (15.15. 17), says, " We have testified of GOD that HE raised up " Christ:...raised not up, if so be that the " dead rise not." And again, " If Christ be not " raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your " sins." We see, then,... | |
 | Archibald Alexander - 1830 - 212 pages
...he, " Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. yea, and we arc found false witnesses of God ; because "we have testified of God that he raited up Christ, whom he raised not up if so be that the dead rise not." Would any man in his senses... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 602 pages
...life ; If Christ be not risen, saith • 4. 15. '1». St. Paul, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain ; yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, that he raised up Christ ; — then we have only hope in this life ; and, if in this life only we have... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...no resurrection of the dead ? And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith a reason ? It is a reason, because " the sins of the...children." It is said, in Luke, " Truly ye bear witness Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." But, blessed be God ! our hope is sure... | |
 | Edward Burton - 1831 - 216 pages
...are " perplexed when they come to the question of the " Father and the Son, adducing this passage, We " are found false witnesses of God, because we...that he raised up Christ, " whom he raised not up, &c. (1 Cor. xv. 15.) and " other similar passages, which prove that he who " raised was different from... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1831 - 634 pages
...after this, life ; ' If Christ be not risen,' saith St. Paul, 'then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain; yea, and we are found false witnesses of God, that he raised up Christ;—then we have only hope in this life;' and, ' if in this life only we have... | |
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Christ not risen: and if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain. Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead... 
