 | Joseph Lathrop - 1810 - Liczba stron: 416
...simply possessed. The end of adversity is kind and friendly. God chastens us, not for his own pleasure, but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness in this life, and admitted '.o his presence in the next. " Our light affliction, which is but for a... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - Liczba stron: 450
...conceive our blessed Lord to act as the physician of our souls, not merely " for his own pleasure, but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness." If, in searching our wounds, he puts us to pain, it is only in order to heal them. He cuts away what... | |
 | William Bates - 1815 - Liczba stron: 544
...design in sending them. " God doth not afflict willingly, but if need be; not for his own pleasure, but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness. Heb. 12. 10. The expression is high and emphatical, " his holiness," the brightest glory of his nature,... | |
 | 1843 - Liczba stron: 628
...that even the severity of our heavenly Father is but another aspect of his goodness. " He chastens but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness," and in the midst of judgment he " remembers mercy." Oh ! that we might be wise, and consider these... | |
 | 1822 - Liczba stron: 554
...fruits of righteousness. In such corrections, God assumes the gracious part of a father, who afflicteth not willingly but for our profit, " that we may be partakers of his holiness." " Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion, according to the multitude of his mercies.".... | |
 | Edward Bickersteth - 1822 - Liczba stron: 330
...you health and strength. Or if in any thing it be otherwise, he does not afllict us for his pleasure, but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness ; and in any case you are yet the living, the living to praise him. What numberless temporal blessings... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 346
...to us a Father ; and can we take anything amiss from a Father, such a Father, who never chastens us but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness ? Inviolable assurances were there given to us, that all things should work together for our present... | |
 | John Wesley - 1825 - Liczba stron: 742
...conceive our blessed Lord to act as the physician of our souls, not merely " for his [own] pleasure, but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness." If, in searching our wounds, he puts us to pain, it is only in order to heal them. He cuts away what... | |
 | 1826 - Liczba stron: 938
...and hope, aod frith— which makes unseen things, present.— God afflicts, " not for his pleasure, but for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness." And though " no affliction for the present seemeth to be joyous, bat grievous afterward it yioldetli... | |
 | James Yonge - 1832 - Liczba stron: 594
...in love, for " the Lord doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men, but chastiseth us for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness ; " " Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth." My Christian friends, it is our want of FAITH that prevents... | |
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Physician of our souls, not merely ' for His own pleasure, but for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 
