 | 1841 - 776 pages
...authority, " For though I should boast (says the apostle) somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed." (2 Corinthians, x. 8.) But to interpose our medium of instrumentality for the cleansing and sanctifying... | |
 | 1841 - 748 pages
...CHRIST'S, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is CHRIST'S, even so are we CHRIST'S; for though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the LORD hath given lu for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed. IN the dissensions of the... | |
 | 1841 - 760 pages
...authority, " For though I should boast (says the apostle) somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord has given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed." (2 Corinthians, x. 8.) But to interpose our medium of instrumentality for the cleansing and sanctifying... | |
 | Thomas Bilson (bp. of Winchester.) - 1842 - 588 pages
...and having in readiness wherewith to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. If I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given me for your edification, and not subversion, I should not be ashamed." " I write now being 2 Cor. xiii.... | |
 | Henry Phibbs Fry - 1843 - 290 pages
...given him." (2 Cor. xiii. 10.)' He alludes also to his power as governing the Church, when he says, " Though I should boast somewhat more of our authority which the Lord hath given us for edification, not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed."* The Apostle describes his authority as that conferred... | |
 | Charles Simmons - 1844 - 552 pages
...any special authority to reprove, rebuke, and exhort, by virtue of their office ? 2 Cor. 10. 8. For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority,...not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed. 2 Cor. 13. 10. I write these things being absent, lest being present 1 should use sharpness, according... | |
 | William Burkitt - 1844 - 862 pages
...what is despicable and contemptible appears without. 8 For though I should boast somewhat more of onr authority, (which the Lord hath given us for edification,...not for your destruction,) I should not be ashamed : As if the apostle had said, " I have not only an equal power and authority with those which despise... | |
 | 1844 - 420 pages
...confidence in his own powers, let him look at the evidence that I also am of Christ. •, That at л which the Lord hath given us for edification, * and...not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed : 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. a chap. 13.2,3. !i chap. 13.8. he is... | |
 | I S H - 1845 - 108 pages
...Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. a For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority which the Lord hath given us for edifi0 cation, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed : that I may not seem as if I... | |
 | John Stow - 1847 - 1142 pages
...CHRIST'S, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is CHRIST'S, even so are we CHRIST'S ! For 0 "- "- ; but weuiill not boast of things without our measure, but according to the Measure of the Rule, Which... | |
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For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given [us] for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed: 9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. 
