 | William Huntington - 1815 - 750 pages
...distress returned 1 hugged myself; and, kissing the rod, welcomed it to my inmost soul, " choosing rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." And most certainly it is an evi248 dent token for good when we choose the rod... | |
 | Richard Charles Coxe - Sermons, English - 1834 - 380 pages
...drank of the wine and was drunken." — We are to imitate Moses — but to imitate him, for " choosing rather to suffer affliction with the children of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season1." — Not in having forgotten his meekness for a moment, and " spoken unadvisedly... | |
 | Church history - 1841 - 848 pages
...very time. He left the pleasures of Egypt, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, and chose rather to suffer affliction with the children of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season ; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt,... | |
 | A. Harding - Europe - 1848 - 326 pages
...The same spirit influenced him when " refusing to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." He found in the land of Midian employ and intercourse with God for c 4 forty... | |
 | Thomas Bradbury - 1880 - 284 pages
...did not cease his weeping with that ark of bulrushes. He wept, and wept, and wept again. He " choose rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season." Do you want further manifestations of this weeping? Look at Paul. He said to... | |
 | Prayer - 1885 - 394 pages
...faith rested on Jesus, I found that peace which flows like a river; and now, like Moses, I have chosen rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin, for I know if I have to face any trouble on account of my religion, I can look forward to a... | |
 | 1880 - 594 pages
...Christ, spoiled for the world, and was constrained to come out, and be separate ; and, like Moses, chose rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. I therefore, in the ordinance of believers' baptism, made a public profession... | |
 | Baptists - 1897 - 878 pages
...1 do not know. 1 do love God's people with a love I cannot describe, and I feel that I would rather suffer affliction with the children of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. I feel to rejoice that I am counted worthy to suffer shame for his name's sake.... | |
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I have chosen rather to suffer affliction with the children of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin, for I know if I have to face any trouble on account of my religion, I can look forward to a glorious reward. 