...might be swallowed up of life. Now, he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God, who also 5 hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always 6 confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : ' (for...

...Christ is the sure house, the dwelling-place. " Now he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." 2 Cor. v. 1 — 5. Thus we have seen a little of the poor, and the riches treasured up in Christ for...

...undoubted. " Therefore we are always confident," says he, " knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, (for we walk by faith and not by sight,) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be...

...departed we have no sense at all of Christ, or of any thing else. Let us hear the same apostle again, " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home (or rather conversant) in the body, we are absent from the Lord : for we walk by faith, not by sight...

...the earnest of his Spirit, hath wrought in us, to be always confident (or at least give us cause), knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. (For we walk by faith, and not by sight.) We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and present...

...that mortality might be swallowed up of life. Now, he that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. Therefore we are always confident," &c.—In these interesting verses, in the explanation of which I cannot enlarge— we have 1. The object...

...wrought us for the self-same thing is God, who also hath given us the earnest of the Spirit." (Ver. 5.) " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord ; we are confident and willing rather to be absent from the body and present...

...age or infirmity, may our spirits be sustained by that noble confidence, of which the apostle speaks: "Therefore, we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the bod}',...

...earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, ire have a building of God. — And ver. G — 8. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we arc absent from Ihe Lord : for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing...

...died for us ; that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together «ith him. 2 Cor. v. 6, 8, 9, Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with...