| Thomas Goodwin Hatchard (bp. of Mauritius.) - 1854 - 378 pages
...attained to the fpirit of St. Paul ? " But what things were gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for Chrift. Yea, doubtlefs, and 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,... | |
| William Beveridge (bp. of st. Asaph.) - 1857 - 92 pages
...he was blamelefs;" "yet," faith he, " what things were gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for Chrift. Yea, doubtlefs, and 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,... | |
| Hannah More - 1859 - 240 pages
...thee, and having a full perfuafion that thou wilt perform all that thou haft promifed. O help me to count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord. Enable me fo to believe, that Chrift may dwell in my heart ; and I may fupremely... | |
| John Mason Neale - 1869 - 104 pages
...but tried — to fay with S. Paul : " What things were gain to me, thofe I counted lofs for CHRIST. Yea doubtlefs, and I count all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of CHRIST JESUS my LORD !" But fo it is : and now we have only to pray that He Who has begun a good work... | |
| John Ross Macduff - 1870 - 304 pages
...soul thirjieth for God" (Psalm xlii. 2.) Paul, who had soared to the third heaven, and who " counted all things but lofs for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrijl," (Phil. iii. 8,) stil! prays, like a lifping learner, "that I may know Him," (Phil. iii. 10.) Nor will... | |
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