 | Daniel Wilcox - 1744 - 454 pages
...reproach of Chrift greater riches than the treafures of Egypt, Heb. xi. 25. For our light afflictions that are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor. iv. 17. By this therefore jhall the iniquity of Jacob be purge dt and... | |
 | Thomas Halyburton - 1756 - 306 pages
...Nat unto us, not unto us, but to thy name, 0 Lord, be ihepraife. Our light afflitxions that endure but for a •moment, -work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. I'll get the martyrs crown, with the minifterof Chrift's crown ; and O but... | |
 | 1807 - 672 pages
...promised, "»j!ca! he hath begun the good werk, he will entry it on till'the day of Jesus Christ." " These light afflictions which are but for a moment, . work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of giory." Oh the precious blood of Christ, that cleanselh from all sin!" Observiug... | |
 | Nathaniel May - 1793 - 320 pages
...degrees of bleffednefs hereafter. Jofeph in the pit, mall yet be exalted above his brethren. Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. JOSEPH'S brethren having proceeded thus far, fat down to eat bread, a feaft... | |
 | 1799 - 614 pages
...thus powerfully fupports him, he will anfvvcr in the words of the Apoftle : " Our light sfrliftions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." — " Blcfled is the man which endurcth temptation (or affliction), for,... | |
 | John Wesley - 1792 - 728 pages
...of men.) Shall we not be infinite gainers by them ? Gainers for ever and ever ! Seeing theft light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory! 7. And are we not by the confcioufnefsof our prefent weaknefs effectually... | |
 | John Wesley, George Story - 1818 - 934 pages
...be accomplished. This he repeated several times, and concluded by saying, with pious exultation, 4 These light afflictions which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.' Among a variety of other chei-ring observations which he made,, relative... | |
 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - 1799 - 466 pages
...calamity that tends to crufli this frail tenement ot clay, is only haflening our paflage? " For our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while \ve look not at the things which are feen, but at the things which... | |
 | Robert Walker - 1799 - 408 pages
...that of fin perpetual. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning ; and thefe light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Should they continue throughout our whole lives, yet even that is but a moment,... | |
 | 1832 - 852 pages
...more it is the will of God, supposing the thing be in itself right, that you should go on. " Our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." And when we set the kingdom which is before us over against the trials in... | |
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May our light afflictions, which are but for a moment, work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory ; while we look not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things unseen and eternal. 
