 | Isaac Watts - 1811 - 466 páginas
...the particular texts. V. 2 Cor. v. 6, 8. " Therefore we are always confident, (or of good courage,) knowing, that whilst we are at home in the body we...confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." The apostle ver. 4. seems to wish that he might be clothed... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 páginas
...while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight: we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," 2 Cor. v. 5—8. Here faith is confined to this life, and... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 páginas
...wrought us for the self-same thing, is God ; who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore, we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body \ve are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by .sia;ht.) 8 We are confident, I say,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1812 - 406 páginas
...earthly house' of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God.-— And ver. 6, 7, 8. Therefore we are always •confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 470 páginas
...Christ is Paul's paradise. According to him, Christ is the most desirable part of celestial felicity : " Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ; we are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," 2 Cor. v. 6, 8. " I desire... | |
 | 1813 - 580 páginas
...dissolved, •we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Ver. 6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : Ver. 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from... | |
 | 1847 - 760 páginas
...Christian. " Ah !" says Paul, " I long to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better."—" We are confident, I say, and willing, rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." What would everything be in his absence ? Could the place, the... | |
 | William Clayton - 1814 - 420 páginas
...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, knowing that " whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent " from the Lord: (for we walk by faith not by " sight.) We are confident, I say, and... | |
 | Reformed Church in America - 1815 - 290 páginas
...for in this we groan, earneslly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven, and we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ; therefore we are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 588 páginas
...which he was made partaker of here. My next argument shall be taken from what is said in 2 Cor. v. 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present ivith the Lord; where one infers the other, without any intimation of his... | |
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Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the LORD : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the... 
