...fellow sinners to spiritual life. Such was the spirit of Paul, " Yea (says he) and if I be poured out on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all," (Phil, ii. 17.) How necessary is it that faitk should precede teaching ; that those who take the care...

...defiance of earth and hell, and ho boldly affirmed " None of these things move me. If I be offered on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." To exhibit the faintest resemblance of such worth, it is necessary to feel much of the life and power...

...life ; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Are these the words of an impostor, desiring nothing but temporal power ? No : they are evidently written...

...was Christ our passover sacrificed for us, but Paul spoke of offering himself, or being offered. " Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Philip, ii. 17. To Timothy he thus wrote, — " For I arn now ready to be offered, and the time of...

...would rather class it with that of an Apostle : " If I be offered," says Paul to the Philippians, " upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you." This was noble. But was Paul crucified for us ? — No — " It is Christ that died" — His death...

...life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." He rejoiced at the steadfastness of saints : Col. ii. 5. "For though 1 be absent in the flesh, yet...

...but almost to despair ; to contemplate the possibility at least of his condemnation 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 show that St Paul visited Bphesus after his liberation at Rome 1 or rather, can we...

...magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. And if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Thus " the good Shepherd giveth his life for the sheep ; but he that is a hireling, and not the shepherd,...

...xii. his own example ; I, saith he, very gladly will spend Phil. ii. i7. and be spent for your souls ; and, If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service...of your faith, I joy • and rejoice with you all; and, Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the Gospel...

...life ; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with yow all." Are these the words of an impostor, desiring nothing but temporal power? No, they are evidently...