| 1828 - 590 pages
...MAGAZINE. SEPTEMBER, 1828. A DISCOURSE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF SCRIPTURAL \TIEWS OF THE CHARACTER OF CHRIST. Yea, douhtless, and I count all things hut loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.— Phil, iii.8. IF the importance of a suhject may he estimated hy the attention... | |
| 1839 - 788 pages
...must not shrink from it. " What things," says he, " were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ; yea, douhtless, and I count all things hut loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jrsus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them hut dung... | |
| Hervey Wilbur - 1829 - 444 pages
...is in the law, hlameless. e 7 But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. с 8 Yea douhtless, and I count all things hut loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them hut dung,... | |
| Christian education - 1831 - 716 pages
...cannot say, without faltering, " Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." What a withering...it holds the throne. When it is under a measure of subjection, how it will sometimes plead, and at other times fight for ascendancy. But in contemplating... | |
| Clergy - 1831 - 352 pages
...cannot say, without faltering, " Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." What a withering...it holds the throne. When it is under a measure of subjection, how it will sometimes plead, and at other times fight for ascendancy. But in contemplating... | |
| John Whitecross - Anecdotes - 1831 - 302 pages
...strength of your own, hut how is it you do not cry to the strong for strength ?" Chap, iii, ver. 8, 9. — Yea douhtless, and I count all things hut loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for ' whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them hut dung,... | |
| Sermons, English - 1833 - 896 pages
...this knowledge, the Apostle could say, " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, douhtless, and I count all things hut loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord." The suhject of the GOspel ministry a not philosophy, neither civil juetice,... | |
| Church history - 1836 - 378 pages
...assurance of faith and hope filled my soul, and I felt as already in heaven. Now I could say, with Paul, ' I count all things hut loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : and do count them hut dung, that I may win Christ, and he found in him ;... | |
| Sermons, English - 1839 - 612 pages
...elevated strains, " But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things hut loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung,... | |
| Christian Gleaner - Gift books - 1844 - 342 pages
...pearls, or costly array." Again — " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, douhtless, and I count all things hut loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord : for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them hut dung,... | |
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