...also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to u* in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above...we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we shouk not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiseth the dead, who delivered us from so great a...

...me." * We find the apostle of the Gentiles encouraging himself in the same way : — " We trust not in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead ;...death, and doth deliver : in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us."f " The Lord stood with me, and strengthened me ; and I was delivered out of the...

...me." * We find the apostle of the Gentiles encouraging himself in the same way : — " We trust not in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead ;...death, and doth deliver : in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us."f " The Lord stood with me, and strengthened me ; and I was delivered out of the...

...be also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which, camt to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure,...we despaired even of life ; but we had the sentence ot death in ourselves, that we shouki not trust in ourselves, but in God, which raiscth the dead, who...

...in such dispensations, to teach both ministers and people their absolute dependence upon Himself. " We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we...in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead." We are thus taught to cease from man, — to remember that " we have this treasure in earthen vessels,...

...steadfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our...death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us : ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us...

...steadfast, knowing that, as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our...death, and doth deliver ; in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us." Nothing could be more expressive of the circumstances in which the history describes...

...Paul. " We would not have you ignorant, brethren," he says, in the verse following those I have read, " of our trouble which came to us in Asia ; that we...in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead." The apostle is in all probability alluding to the tumult raised at Ephesus by Demetrius and his craftsmen,...

...calamity, have often been enabled to say in the language of gratitude, and of confident anticipation, " We had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we...death, and doth deliver, in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us." Receive, afflicted children, the words of an ancient Seer: " the eyes of the...

..." I was •with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling ?" Did he fear to tell them, " We would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble...strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life ?" 2 Cor. i. 8. Did he fear to tell them, that he was " troubled on every side, perplexed, cast down?"...