 | Charles Bradbury (minister of the gospel.) - 1785 - 160 pages
...is die moft fparkling diamond in the ring of glory. ' ' Therefore we fhould '- count all things but lofs and dung for the * excellency of the knowledge of Chrift « Jefus,' Pbil. iii. &. Beza. fiid, Time is a precious commodity ; of all other profeffions a man may have two... | |
 | John Newton - Messiah - 1786 - 512 pages
...God, could not be a ftate of happinefs to us, unlefs we are likeminded with the apoftle, to account all things lofs and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus our Lord. * Rev. xiv. 3. f Phil. in. 3. SE RSERMON XI. MESSIAH'S ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM. ZECH. ix.... | |
 | Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (AMERICA, North) - 1793 - 402 pages
...the apoflle Paul, that we know nothing but Jefus Chrift, and him crucified, we count alt things but lofs and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus our Lord; in whofe wound's we find all manner of confolation, Neither is it neceflary to feek or invent... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1795 - 540 pages
...difdain and abhorrence, and your foul would have ftightcred after a Redeemer, faying, " I count all but lofs and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord?" Have you got fuch glorious difcoveries of the grace and love of God in Chrift, in the gofpel, as hath... | |
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Chrift, and him crucified, we count alt things but lofs and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus... 