...crept into the churches of our saints, and plead more earnestly for " innocent amusements" than for "the work of faith, and labour of love and patience of hope." Nay, some, it may be, are numbered with the mimstry of reconciliation — men who issue a half-truth—...

...explained, ' by reason of his works,' but, ' out of,' or consequentially upon, them : these works being " the work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope," wrought in him under the covenant of grace, whereof God Himself is the author, and not man. Prospectively...

...them in Scripture placed together in this way. In the 1st chapter of this Epistle, St. Paul speaks of the work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope of his converts ; and regards them as evidences of their election of God. Again. In the 13th of 1st...

...together, describing each by its peculiar fruit, remembering without ceasing, and with gratitude to God " the work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope" which were seen in his Thessalonian converts. A great many very weighty and very delightful things...

...Apostle " thanks God upon every remembrance of them." (Phil. i. 3.) He remembered too, without ceasing, the " work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope " of the Thessalonian Christians. (1 Thess. i. 3.) But with all these reasons for thankfulness there...

...spark of true human love, there still is the sign of life, there still is ground for steadily pursuing the " work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope," on behalf of our fellow-man, "in the sight of God our Father." It is not, then, as wo have seen, his...

...spark of true human love, there still is the sign of life, there still is ground for steadily pursuing the " work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope," on behalf of our fellow-man, " in the sight of God our Father." It is not, then, as we have seen, his...

...would reign, and toil if we would be rewarded, and persevere amid afflictions and discouragements, in the work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope, if we would obtain such moral fitness— such spiritual tastes — such Christian graces and virtues,...

...the way of His own appointment, and so separated from the world and consecrated to Him. There must be the work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope. Upon him is laid the solemn injunction, "Work out your own salvation with tear and tremhling." And...

...; interpreters were no longer required ; women were silent in the churches ; all had subsided into the work of faith and labour of love and patience of hope ; and the great topics of true repentance, the restoration of the penitent, the earthly and the heavenly...