...we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no eertain dwelling-plaee; 13 And labour, working with our own hands ; being reviled, we bless ; being perseeuted, we suffer it; 14 I write not these things to shame you, but, as my beloved sons, I warn...

...despised. Even unto this present hour, we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffetted ; and have no certain dwelling-place : And labour, working...being persecuted, we suffer it ; being defamed, we intreat. There is scarce any circumstance of human affliction, which these devoted men did not suffer,...

...we both hunger .and thirst, and are almost naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain abode: 12. And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it patiently; 13. Being detained, we exhort (to impartial judgment;) we are treated like the very filth...

...coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Being reviled, we bless: being persecuted, we suffer it: being defamed, we entreat. Thou shalt not avenge or bear any grudge against the children of thy people. If thine enemy be hungry,...

...home; having shewn what was their treatment, he proceeds to shew what was their temper under it : — Being reviled we bless ; being persecuted we suffer it; being defamed we entreat. This is indeed practical Christianity ! After enumerating the trials to which they may be exposed,...

...Noble, in this respect, and worthy our imitation was the conduct of the apostles of the Lamb. — " Being reviled, we bless ; being persecuted, we suffer it ; being defamed we intreat ; lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ." But this forbearance is not necessary barely...

...iv 11, 12. " Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place; and labour, working' with our own. hands."-,. •< . ; .u .--.' .,•': (.i ji .-.•' We are expressly told, in the history, that at Corinth St....

...for their salvation, Christians are willing to be made a spectacle to angels and to men :— that, being reviled, we bless ; being persecuted, we suffer it ; being defamed, we intreat ; and become all things to all men, that we may by all means save some: 1 Cor. iv. 9 — 12....

...they were England's glory and strength — though, during the turmoil, they were sometimes treated 'as the filth of the world, and as the offscouring of all things.' They planted, and watered, and watched, and trained the tree of civil freedom and religious liberty,...

...place ; and labour, working with our own hands ; being reviled, we blefs ; being perfecuted,'we fuffer it ; being defamed, we entreat ; we are made as the filth of the world, aud are the offscouring of all things unto this day." ( 8 } The Apoflles of our Lord were fent forth...