 | John Flavel - Presbyterian Church - 1671 - 576 pages
...Scriptures 1 Not at all. The Scriptures take notice of no such interval ; but plainly enough deny it: " We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." 2 Cor. 5 : 8. No sooner parted from the body, than present with... | |
 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands eternal in the heavens.—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 body,... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - Spiritual life - 1804 - 320 pages
...same thing (i. e. eter" nal glory) is God, who also hath given ".unto us the earnest of the Spirit. " Therefore we are always confident, " knowing that,...confident, I say, and *' willing rather to be absent from the " body, and to be present with the "Lord 1 ." Thus grace, inwrought in our souls by the Holy Ghost,... | |
 | Theophilus Browne - 1805 - 274 pages
...spirit. There- 6 fore we arc always of good courage, though we know that whilst we continue in the body we are absent from the Lord ; (for we walk by! faith and not by sight) ; we are 8 of good courage, / say, and desirous rather to be absent from the body,... | |
 | 1806 - 854 pages
...viz. immortal glory, and in testimony of it, had " given them the earnest of the spirit;" he adds, " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst...the Lord : (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We ¡ire confident, f say, und willing, rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - Westminster Assembly - 1806 - 308 pages
...his glory, as also the company of angels and souls of other saints in their glory, 2 Cor. v. 6, 7, 8. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst...absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sigh' :) we are confident, I say, and willing Wi-ather; to be absent from the body, and to be pre^nt... | |
 | 1807 - 570 pages
...wrought us for the selfsame thing zs 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, we are absent from the Lord: . • . 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight: 8 We are confident, / say,... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1808 - 514 pages
...tabernacle were dissolved, we have a'building of God. And ver. 6, 7, 8. Therefore we are alwaysconfident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we...the Lord ; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We arc confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent rrort the body, and present with the Lord. 2.... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...clothed with glory ; that so mortality might, without any sensible pain, be swallowed up of life. V. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. Therefore, howsoever nature is ready to shrink at the thought of dissolution,... | |
 | Eliza Hunt - 1808 - 138 pages
...Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy righthand there are pleasures for evermore."—Psalm xvi. 11: "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."—2 Cor. v. 8. THE last sigh is hush'd; and the spirit... | |
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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 Lord. 
