 | Robert Leighton (abp. of Glasgow.) - 1821 - 574 pages
...safest ; and if it be so with you, then tchere your treasure is, there will your hearts be also. Ver. 6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season,...ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. THE same motives cannot beget contrary passions in the soul ; therefore the apostle reduces the mixture... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1821 - 472 pages
...temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. 1 Pet. i. 6, 7, "Now, for a season ye are in heaviness, through manifold temptations;...trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold," &c. So the apostle Paul speaks of that expensive dutj ef parting with our substance to the poor,... | |
 | 1821 - 694 pages
...peaceable fruits of righteousness." The Apo>tles give this testimony respecting the drsign of the cross. " Ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith, bring much more precious than of gold that perishelh, though it be tried with fire, might be found... | |
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...doth so easily beset us, and let vs run. with patience the race that is set before us. 1 Pet. i. 6, 7. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye arc "in heaviness through manifold temptations: that the trial of 'your faith, being much more precious... | |
 | Robert Leighton - 1822 - 576 pages
...knows our mould, and our maladies, and what kind and quantity of chastisement is needful for our cure. Though now for a season, (if need be) ye are in heaviness .] The other consideration that moderates this heaviness is its shortness : Because we willingly forget... | |
 | Thomas Southwood Smith - 1822 - 464 pages
...appears to be used to signify the same thing, the corrective nature of punishment. 1 Peter i. 7 : " That the trial of your faith being much more precious than of gold thatperisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory,... | |
 | 1822 - 550 pages
...ourselves and others, we may take comfort from these words : " that the trial of your faith bejng much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with tire, might be feund unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ." The death... | |
 | Alexander Tilloch - 1823 - 400 pages
...which he makes it to rest. The sixth and seventh verses are thus rendered in the common version : " Wherein ye greatly re"joice, though now for a season...of your faith, being much more " precious than of gold which perisheth, though it " be tried with fire, might be found unto praise, " and honor, and... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - 1823 - 508 pages
...not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God, through faith unto salvation. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season...manifold temptations; that the trial of your faith might be found unto praise, and honour, and glory, at the appearance of Jesus Christ : whom having... | |
 | George Withy - 1823 - 30 pages
...away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly...rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are 12 in heaviness, through manifold temptations ; that the trial of your faith being much more precious... | |
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That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ... 
