CLXXXII. An Apostle’s Prospect of Death.
2 COR. v. 8. "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." IT would be impossible to set forth…
CLXXXI. Preparation for Heaven.
2 COR. v. 5. "Now He that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." I. THE work…
CLXXX. Morality and Religion.
2 COR. iv. 2. "By manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God." THE truth of which the apostle is speaking, by the…
CLXXIX. The Ministry.
2 COR. iv. 1, 2. "Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in…
CLXXVIII. Mirrors of Christ.
2 COR. iii. 18. "But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory,…
CLXXVII. Our Sufficiency.
2 COR. iii. 5. "Our sufficiency is of God." THE doctrine in these words is no more true of ministers than of Christians in general. The station is different, but…
CLXXVI. The Devices of Satan.
2 COR. ii. 11. "For we are not ignorant of his devices." IT is both unphilosophical and dangerous to deny the existence and agency of evil spirits, or to consider…
CLXXV. Helpers of your Joy.
2 COR. i. 24. "Not for that we have dominion over your faith, but are helpers of your joy." THIS Epistle much taken up with the subject of his own…
CLXXIV. The Limitation of Knowledge.
1 COR. xvii. 9. "Now we know in part." ST. PAUL is placing knowledge in contrast with love. He implies that knowledge belongs to the present in its essence; love…
CLXXIII. Christian Strength.
1 COR. xvi. 13. "Be strong." THIS whole verse has in it the ring of the battle-field. These words of Paul are in themselves "half-battles," and send the Christian soldier…
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