...vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed, we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." I shall not trouble you, my brethren, with an account of the conflicts and oppositions...

...in the fourth chapter of the Second Epistle to the Corinthians, we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed: we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. How is this ? How did they weather this trial ? The latter part of the chapter puts...

...sang praises to God, and the prisoners heard them." He could say, " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed." " For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by...

...occasion of almost equal importance, he exclaims, " The agony is over. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed. Though disfranchised, we inherit ; though excommunicated, we commune ; though amputated...

...particularly in the 8th, 9th, and 10th verses of that chapter : " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of...

...utterly overpressed, as feie%a{xpui6t means, the word properly signifying crushed in a strait passage,) " we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about with us, in the body, the dying of the Lord Jesus ;" the cruelties...

...daughter of Zion for the souls of the heathen. But the agony is over. ' We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.'" Brief View^ p. 16. Persecuted! By whom? In what respect? By the majority, who acted...

...making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things". We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of...

...posterity. It has ennobled the hero, the saint, and the martyr. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; <we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed. * THUS I have traced Patience through several of its most important operations in different...

...the world, and arc the offscouring of all things unto this day. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed ; as deceivers, and yet true ; as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and behold...