...and fufferings for God and his truth, fpeak- of his diflblution ? 2 Tim. iv. 6. 7. 8. For I am now ready to be offered up, and. the time of my departure is at hand. 1 have fought a good fight, I have finijbed my courfe, 1 have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid...

...power upon your hearts, that if God call you to fuffer for him, you may fay as Paul did, BJ " am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure " is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finiihed mj " courfe, I have kept the faith : henceforth...

...epiftle. However there are fome difficulties, that ought to be taken notice of. I . Obj . For I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. iv. 6. Thefe expreffions led (e) Eufebius of Cefarca and(/>) Jérôme, who followed...

...power upon your hearts, that if .God call you to fuffer for him, you may fay as Paul did, " I am now ready « to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I Lave " tougbt a gocd fight, I have iinifiied my courfe, 1 have kept the *' faith ; henceforth...

...Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith;"—adopting this cheerful language of St. Paul; " I am now ready to be offered up ; and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth,...

...fons' wives, and, at different times, thus fpoke to them : " I ani going the way of all flelh, I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand : knowing, therefore, that fhortly I muft put off this tabernacle, even as our Lord Jefus Chrift...

...Jhall heheld, and not another. Job xxix. 22» 25. And the Apoftle Paul alfo — For tam now ready to he offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. 1 have fought a goodfght ; / baveftnijhed my courfe ; I have kept the faith : henceforth thert is laid...

...he, with a sacred composure, a heavenly heroism, thus wrote to his beloved Timothy, — ' I am now ready to be offered up, and ' the time of my departure is at hand. I ' have fought a good fight, I have finished ' my course, I have kept the faith. Hence' forth...

...them, at several tiraes, as he was able, the following words : — " I am going the way of all flesh : I am ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. Knowing, therefore, that shortly I must put off this tabernacle,' even as our Lord Jesus Christ...

...of continual and great sufferings, and to triumph in the prospect of a vi-. olent death. " I am now ready to be offered up, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight : I have finished my course : I have kept the faith. Henceforth...