 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight:) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.  The Parish Church; Or, Religion in Britain - Page 146by Thomas Wood - 1825 - 411 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Isaac Watts - Future life - 1811 - 466 pages
...the particular texts. V. 2 Cor. v. 6, 8. " Therefore we are always confident, (or of good courage,) knowing, that whilst we are at home in the body we...from the body, and to be present with the Lord." The apostle ver. 4. seems to wish that he might be clothed upon at once with immortality in soul and body,... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 416 pages
...while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith, not by sight: we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," 2 Cor. v. 5—8. Here faith is confined to this life, and... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregationalism - 1812 - 406 pages
...house' of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God.-— And ver. 6, 7, 8. Therefore we are always •confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord; for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and willing... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...for the self-same thing, is God ; who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore, we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body \ve are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by .sia;ht.) 8 We are confident, I say,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 616 pages
...courage, knowing that K'hiht we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ; We are confident, J say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord: The apostle, verse 4. seems to wish that he might be clothed upon at once, with immortality in soul and... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 470 pages
...Christ is Paul's paradise. According to him, Christ is the most desirable part of celestial felicity : " Whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ; we are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord," 2 Cor. v. 6, 8. " I desire... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1813 - 580 pages
...•we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Ver. 6. Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : Ver. 8. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from... | |
 | Missions - 1847 - 760 pages
...Christian. " Ah !" says Paul, " I long to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better."—" We are confident, I say, and willing, rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." What would everything be in his absence ? Could the place, the... | |
 | William Clayton - Sermons, English - 1814 - 420 pages
...for the self-same thing is God, who " also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that " whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent " from the Lord: (for we walk by faith not by " sight.) We are confident, I say, and... | |
 | Reformed Church in America - 1815 - 290 pages
...for in this we groan, earneslly desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven, and we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord ; therefore we are willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be... | |
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