 | Benjamin Beddome - 1807 - 546 pàgines
...sufficient, the Lord will find other means to lay us low. Lest I should be exalted above measure, says Paul, through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in tbejlesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me. This was a singular kind of discipline, but such as... | |
 | William Paley - 1808 - 402 pàgines
...yet of myself I will not glory, "but in mine infirmities." Then he goes on; "lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations,...buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure." After what you have heard, you will not wonder, that this same St. Paul should pronounce himself to... | |
 | Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 426 pàgines
...prays to Christ when there was given to him a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet him : "For this thing, I besought the Lord thrice, that...might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee : for my strength is made perfect in weakness." What follows proves that by the... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 550 pàgines
...nakedness? 2 Cor. xi. 24 — 27. Yea, which was worse than all these, dost thou not hear him sa}-, There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me? 2 Cor. xii. 1. Dost thou not too well know, for thou wert the main actor in those woeful tragedies,... | |
 | Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pàgines
...I should be exalted abmie measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to vie a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest 1 should be exalted above measure. Neither had I this one vision only, but very many revelations from... | |
 | William Romaine - 1809 - 220 pàgines
...it is not possible for a man to utter : and lest I should be exalted above measure, through • ' o the abundance of the revelations, there was given...buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure j for this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that he would take it away from me. And he said unto me,... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 676 pàgines
...sinning ? A. It is not, without the continual influence of God's Quickening Grace : 2 Cor. xii. 7. There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger...buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. Q. What are those graces, that God doth especially excite, to keep his children from sin ? A. They... | |
 | 1828 - 590 pàgines
...Lord." Thus the Apostle himself says, " Lest I should he exalted ahove measure, throngh the ahundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to huffet me, lest I should he exalted ahove measure." 2 Cor. xii. 7. But perhaps some one may say, "... | |
 | John Skinner - 1809 - 582 pàgines
...as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. ' Lest I should be exalted above measure thro' ' the abundance of the revelations, there was given ' to me a thorn in the flesh ',' said once an apostle, after the rapturous entertainment he had been blessed with. Such a lesson... | |
 | Church of Scotland - 1810 - 636 pàgines
...the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. q 2 Cor. xii. 7. And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations,...in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, leit I should be exalted above measure. Ver. 8. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it... | |
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And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 
