...Christ's church, as a -•-,-;. n& minister, and one that was counted faithful. Yea, saith he, and it 1 be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, " I joy and rejoice with you all." This thai teachcth us several things worthy our consideration. I. That the blood of the saints that...

...Christ, that I hâve not nui in vain, neither laboured in vain. 17 Yea, and if I be offered upon thé sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you ail. 18 For thé same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice witb me. 19 Or j'espère çu'avec la grâce...

...their unwearied service and labour of love. If, saith the Apostle, in his epistle to the Philipplans," I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you allb. "And to the Thessalonians," So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have...

...be offered. A similar allusion to sacrifice occurs in Phil, ii, 17 : " Yea, and if I be poured out upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Here the apostle represents the faith of the Philippians as the sacrificial victim, and compares his...

...say, " None of these H 2 things move me, neither count I my life dear unto me," in a cause so holy. " Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." But the pecuniary means requisite for their outfit, passage, and future support, the Committee do not...

...todespair; to contemplate the possibility at least of his condemnation and martyrdom : " Vea, and if 1 be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." No. I. But can we show that St. Paul visited Ephesns after his liberation at Rome ? or rather, can...

...but almost to despair ; to contemplate the possibility at least of his condenmation and martyrdom: " Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." No. I. But can we shew that St. Paul visited Ephesus after his liberation at Rome : or rather, can...

...received, he proceeds (Chap. ii. 17.) as follows:— <l Yea, and if I be offered upon " the saerifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." The intervening charge is happily and judiciously introduced by the apostle, in order that the Philippians...

...me. Such was the invincible stedfastness of Paul, that he could look martyrdom in the face, and say. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. — Jer. iii. 19. Phil. ii. 17. In explaining the exhortation, let us farther inquire, ' how or in...

...despair; to contemplate the possihility at least of his condemnation and martyrdom : " Yea, and if I he offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." No. I. But can we show that St. Paul visited Ephcsus after his liheration at Rome ? or rather, can...