 | John Howe - 1813 - 536 pages
...body, the church, who is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, &c. And that in chap. 2. 1 !*, Not holding the head, from which all the body by joints...knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. All these expressions speak a vital union, such as every member in the body hath with the head, being... | |
 | 1839 - 702 pages
...angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind. And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints...knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world,... | |
 | Moses Mather - 1813 - 258 pages
...where the apostle speaks of men of corrupt minds, as " Not holding the head, the Lord Jesus Christ, from which all the body by joints and bands, having...together, increaseth with the increase of God." This headship of Christ is also sometimes represented in a more extensive sense, or expressive of his relation... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...things to come ; all are yours ; Ver. 23. And ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's. Col. ii. 19 And not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bauds having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. c 1 Thess.... | |
 | 1814 - 630 pages
...angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind ; and not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministred, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God."* And after says, ver. 93, " Which... | |
 | 1814 - 570 pages
...whieh he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind; 19 And not holding the head, from whieh all the body, by joints and bands, having nourishment ministered, and knit together, inereaseth with the inerease of God. 20 Wherefore if ye be dead iviIh Christ from the rudiments of... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1871 - 644 pages
...the trunk, some men of the arms, and some of the feet, making the BODY THE CHURCH (Col. i. 18). All "holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands may have nourishment ministered, and be knit together, increasing with the increase of God" (Col. ii.... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 588 pages
...union there is between the head and members, as the apostle farther illustrates it, when he styles him the head, from which all the body, by joints and bands,...knit together, increaseth with the increase of God, Col. ii. 19. which is a very beautiful similitude, •whereby we are given to understand, that as the... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 598 pages
...for that is hardly to be expected in this world ; but they are obliged, as the apostles says, to hold the head, from which all the body, by joints and bands,...knit together, increaseth with the increase of God, Coi. ii. 19. and publicly to avow, or maintain, no doctrine subversive of die foundation on which the... | |
 | Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends - 1867 - 710 pages
..."fellowship one with another, and to know the blood of Jesus Christ to cleanse thorn from all sin." Thus holding " The Head, from which all the body by joints...having nourishment ministered and knit together," we would "increase with the increase of God." We would be brought willingly and gladly, to attend all... | |
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And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. 
