| 1745 - 522 pages
...happiness, and was ready to make any sacrifice to promote it. " Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor ; that ye through his poverty might be rich." What an example ! We cannot so love ; but unless we have this spirit in... | |
| 1842 - 434 pages
...unable to help ourselves. It was in this wretched condition that he beheld us ; and such was his love, that though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich. He clothed himself in flesh ; he took on himself the form of... | |
| John Moffat Howe - 1843 - 298 pages
...disinterested development of the character of God that could possibly have been given to our fallen race : that "though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich ;" and that it was the Christian's privilege and duty to keep... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1843 - 316 pages
...towards us: having therefore obtained mercy, we ought to show mercy; knowing the grace of the Lord Jesus, "that though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." We must come from this ordinance with a disposition to forgive... | |
| Anti-Mammon (pseud.) - 1843 - 242 pages
...carpenter's son;" that he was born in a manger, his mother being no guest for an inn in busy times; that " though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor;" that though he was " in the form of God, and thought it not robbery to be equal with God, he made himself... | |
| Henry Forster Burder - 1843 - 236 pages
...death, even the death of the cross." Phil, ii. 7, 8. " Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." 2 Cor. viii. 9. " Remember then the words of the Lord Jesus,... | |
| 1860 - 444 pages
...glory of Jesus that he was patient under provocation, self-denying, obedient to God even unto death, that though he was rich yet for our sakes he became poor that we through his poverty might be made rich. Is all this inconsistent with the possession of a human... | |
| Daniel Bagot - 1844 - 356 pages
...and resources of Deity for its accomplishment. But such was the Saviour's pity and compassion for us, that " though he was rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich:" "he made himself of no reputation, and took upon him tin;... | |
| Plain sermons - 1844 - 768 pages
...24. xiv. 26. " Luke ix. 23. HE gave His SON '." Here is self-denial. And the SON of GOD so loved us, that " though HE was rich yet for our sakes HE became poor 5 ." Here is our SAVIOUR'S self-denial. " HE pleased not HIMSELF." And what CHRIST did when HE came... | |
| William Cooke, Joseph Barker - 1845 - 512 pages
...world. These little criticisms of my opponent are great absurdities. We have next a quotation from 2 Cor. viii., 9, " Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus...yet for our sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich." Now, in the first place, the original does not indicate a state of pre-existence,... | |
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