 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...know that I am the Lord : fur they shall not be ashamed that wait for thee. 1 Thess. ii. 7, 8. 11. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, at a father doth his children.... | |
 | 1835 - 1024 pages
...hearers to be reconciled to God. Hear what the Apostle of the Gentiles said to the Thessalonians : " We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children ; so, being1 affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the Gospel of... | |
 | 1827 - 916 pages
...constraineth us, &c ;" and, " being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted to you, not the Gospel of God only, but also our own souls ; because you were dear unto us." Our Fathers were distinguished by their zeal, earnestness, and unremitting... | |
 | 1822 - 538 pages
...is not ready, with the generous feeling of an apostie, to exclaim : we are " willing" to impart to you, " not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls ?" By the phrase heaven and earth, the Jews expressed their idea of the universe. But to Jesus all... | |
 | 1822 - 602 pages
...Lord; since "yourselves, brethren, know their entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain ;" since ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily, and justly, and unblameably, they have behaved themselves among you that believe;" since you have fairly examined and properly estimated... | |
 | 1823 - 430 pages
...SOUL delight in fatness." (Isaiah Iv. 2.) See also Paul's address to the church at Thessalonica — " We " were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of " God only, but also our own SO ULS, because ye were dear to " us." (1 Thess. ii. 8.) From these several cases, thus classed, it... | |
 | Edward Cooper - 1823 - 452 pages
...the truth." Thus we find the same Apostle conducting his own ministry, saying to the Thessalonians, " We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children." And in many parts of his writings we perceive the same spirit displaying itself. We perceive Him praying... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 660 pages
...Sermon is respectfully inscribed, By the AUTHOR. ON THE DEATH OF DR. CONYERS. THESSALONIANS, ii. 8. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. AN active, undaunted zeal in the service of God, and a peculiar tenderness of affection towards his... | |
 | 1847 - 390 pages
...the natural fervour of the apostle. " My brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown." " Being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing...also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us." Self-love was lost in the love of the brethren ; he sought not his own, but his Master's glory. " Who... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 748 pages
...the example of the apostles, were equally desirous to imitate him in the use of it.) He then adds, " So being affectionately desirous of you, we were "willing...only, but also our own souls, because " ye were dear to us." No comment can do justice to the spirit of this sentiment, or to the force of the expression,... | |
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But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children : So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. 
