| American Baptist Foreign Mission Society - Baptists - 1814 - 500 pages
...relieved by our benevolence — and above all, from the love and condescension of the Lord Jesus Christ, who ' though he was rich, yet for our sakes became...poor, that we through his poverty, might be rich.' Here are motives exactly fitted to act on a pious soul. But these are not all. Look back, and see what... | |
| Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though Le was rich, (beyond all computation or conception,) yet, for our sakes, became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." When, therefore, he, who was holy, harmless, and undefiled, loves guilty and polluted worms ; when... | |
| Reformed Church in America - 1815 - 290 pages
...transgressions, to be a propitiation for all our sins, as Isaiah clearly testifies. — " And he who was rich, for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." 2 Cor. viii. 9. For he bulb given unto us, all his goods, all his benefits, all his righteousness,... | |
| Samuel Lavington - 1815 - 640 pages
...you have been reviewing the wonders of his love, and admiring the " grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that i we through his poverty might be rich ;" who " humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 488 pages
...God, and in imitation of his example. Let us always bear in mind " the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." Let us •onsider the uncertainty of all earthly things, and this will dispose us to employ them with... | |
| 1816 - 442 pages
...received !' On this subject we are reminded by an apostle of ' the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ .... who, though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that w* through his poverty might be rich.' We are ' not our own, bat bought with a price ;' and, therefore,... | |
| Theology - 1818 - 396 pages
...me to heaven at last. speaks of the Saviour's love—" Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, who though he was rich* yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." (2 Cor. viii. 9.) Mr. C. My dear boy, you need not doubt but if you seek him earnestly he will save... | |
| George Horne (bp. of Norwich.) - 1818 - 600 pages
...nests, had not where to lay his head." I speak to them that " know the grace of our Lord " Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became...poor, that we, through his poverty, " might be rich." His appearance in this state has cast a glory round it, and forces us to view it in a new light; so... | |
| George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 604 pages
...nests, had not where to lay his head." I speak to them that " know the grace of our Lord " Jesus Christ, who, though he was rich, yet for our " sakes became...poor, that we, through his poverty, " might be rich." His appearance in this state has cast a glory round it, and forces us to view it in a new light ; so... | |
| India - 1818 - 350 pages
...when thanks are not received in return. It is an emanation from the mind of the Saviour of the world, who " though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich.'' It is that spirit, which, when it fully pervades mankind, will remove every misery... | |
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