 | Samuel Disney - 1788 - 464 pages
...abideth in us, by the fpirit which he hath given us," DISCOURSE XVII. PHILIPPIANS III. 7, 8.* BUT WHAT THINGS WERE GAIN TO ME, THOSE I COUNTED LOSS FOR CHRIST. YEA, DOUBTLESS, AND I-COUNT ALL THINGS BUT LOSS, FOR. THE EXCELLENCY OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS MY LORD. IN the verfes... | |
 | George Burder - 1835 - 654 pages
...then, your own righteousness, as St. Paul, the converted Pharisee, did, who says, Phil. iii. 7. " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 454 pages
...Hence the holy apostle Paul, after all his personal attainments and distinctions, said ; " But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord." 6. Men must come to the knowledge... | |
 | John Fletcher - 1804 - 444 pages
...divine master deserves to be had in everlasting remembrance : " Those things which were gain to me, I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the... | |
 | Robert Leighton, George Jerment - 1806 - 468 pages
...thus; for if not thus, you love him not at all. The apostle St. Paul's love was of this size8. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom 1 have suffered the... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1808 - 588 pages
...their sins have been. Hence it is that St. Paul uses such decisive language on this subject : " What things were gain '" to me, those I counted loss for Christ: yea, " doubtless and I count all things but loss for the " excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus " my Lord, for whom I have suffered... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1808 - 332 pages
...With what a noble triumph' does he declare to the Philippians the effects of his conversion ! " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I haye suffered the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 512 pages
...life, which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God. Phil. iii. 7, 8. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, and do count them but dung that... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 516 pages
...life, which I now live in thp flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of Go4' Phil. iii. 7, 8. But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge cf Christ Jesus my Lord, and do count them but dung that... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pages
...which neither can be decayed by time, nor altered with cross events ! Hear the Chosen Vessel : What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ: yea, doubtless, I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord ; for whom... | |
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But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea doubtless, and I count all things but 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,... 
