 | Edward Reynolds - Bible - 1811 - 434 pages
...«' Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace," Luke ii. 29 ; and with Paul the aged, " I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better/' Phil. i. 23. And since the grave is our long home, let it be our principal care to have that a house of rest... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1823 - 546 pages
...mercy. Meditation upon this delightful theme warms the hearts of believers upon earth, and makes them desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Phil. i. 23. " Prepare me, Lord, for thy right hand, Then come the joyful day ; Come death, and some celestial... | |
 | W. L - 1827 - 318 pages
...willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," Again he says, " 1 have a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." — (Phil. i. 23) " For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." — (Ver. 21.) Christ told the penitent thief,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 680 pages
...Christ, and to die is gain. What I shall choose I know not : for I am in a strait between two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." (Phil. i. 21—23.) 31. " Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord," £c. (Rev. xiv. 13.) 32. " We are come to Mount Zion,... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1831 - 686 pages
...mercy. Meditation upon this delightful theme warms the hearts of helievers upon earth, and makes them desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Phil. i. 23. " Prepare me, Lord, for thy right hand, Then come the joyful day ; Come death, and some celestial... | |
 | Isaac Ambrose - 1832 - 730 pages
...otherwise I should not persuade you lo it; " I am in a strait, (said Paul,) betwixt two, having- a terrors of Christ, as if Christ had come only to destroy them, 1:23. And this is the voice of the desolate bride, Come, for the Spirit of Christ within her saiih,... | |
 | 1833 - 650 pages
...Cor. v. 8. The great apostle's vehement longing for his own personal and perfect felicity," Having a desire to depart, and be with Christ, which is far better. " Phil. i. 23. And finally, his directing the eyes of faith and hope, and love, to " the spirits of just men made... | |
 | Henry Jones (of New York.) - Second Advent - 1839 - 256 pages
...home in the body, are absent from the Lord." (2 Cor. 8 : 6,) and yet when exercising faith, " having a desire to depart . and be with Christ, which is far better, (Phil. 1 : 23,) it may be seen, that like Paul, they will feel a continual desire, or " prayer" of heart for... | |
 | 1849 - 586 pages
...till the great day of the Lord, he could not have written, " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better," (Phil. i. 23.) " for to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." (i. 21.) To sleep in a Hades of forgetfulness... | |
 | 1849 - 514 pages
...fruit of nay labor: Yet what I shall choose I wot not.. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better."— Phil. 1 : 21—23. What,now, was the secret of Paul's desire to depart? \yas it that he wished to'get rid... | |
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But if to live in the flesh, — if this is the fruit of my work, then what I shall choose I wot not. But I am in a strait betwixt the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ ; for it is very far better : yet to abide in the flesh is more... 
