 | Harvey Newcomb - 1841 - 416 pages
...one or two heads may perhaps be found sufficient for one season of meditation. CHAPTER X. ON HEALTH. "I wish, above all things, that thou mayest prosper, and be in lualtJi." — 3 JoHK, 2. IF . we feel suitably grateful to him who hath died for us, and washed us... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1842 - 52 pages
...REQUEST. 1. Brethren, my heart's desire, and prayer to God, for you all is, that you may be saved. 2. I wish, above all things, that thou mayest prosper,...and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 3. I rejoiced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee, even that thou... | |
 | 1842 - 844 pages
...should seem principally subservient to religious ends, the Apostle John says to his beloved Gains, " that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." (3 John 2.) Of what value is substantial health to the faithful ministers of Christ, it is scarcely possible to... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1842 - 600 pages
...with a faint and feeble body, as may be collected from the words of St. John : " I wish that thoii mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth," 3 John 2. You are, sir, the entertainer-general of good men ; many a poor minister will never be wholly " sequestered... | |
 | 1843 - 722 pages
...sister, with much warmth of spiritual affection for the truth's sake ; for my dear wife and humble self wish above all things, that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. The Lord, dear sister, is very gracious unto your unworthy brother, in continuing to supply my every... | |
 | 1864 - 704 pages
...being the chief corner-stone." SEPTEMBEE, 1865. THE SOUL'S PEOSPEEITY. BY THE REV. BP PRATTEX, BA " Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest...health, even as thy soul prospereth." — 3 JOHN 2. THE writer of this congratulates his friend that his soul is prosperous, and expresses his desire,... | |
 | 1844 - 462 pages
...as it was first written. To my dear Friend and Brother in Christ Jesus, whom I love in tlie truth. I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth; for it afforded me great pleasure and rejoiced my heart to read the contents of your kind ami affectionate... | |
 | 1845 - 952 pages
...love, by our Jesus, thy Christ, God with us. Amen. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF SPIRITUAL HEALTH. A SKETCH. "Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest...health, even as thy soul prospereth." — 3 John, 2. IN forming an estimate of our state, it is essential that we should know what test we are to apply,... | |
 | Thomas Manton - 1845 - 624 pages
...remedy : but what a wonderful disproportion is there as to the soul ? It is a strange expression : " Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest...be in health, even as thy soul prospereth" (3 John il). Alas ! we may say of the most, Oh, that their souls did prosper as their bodies ; as they flourish... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 pages
...knowledge, and in all judgment." Such was St. John's charity to his friend Gaius, to whom he said, Bdovedt I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth." Such is the charity which we are enjoined to express toward all men, by praying for all men, in conformity... | |
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Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth. 
