The Cottage Bible And Family Expositor The Authorized Tr With Reflections And Notes By T Williams PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... so jntheLord.freydear-great and important a hope, ye improve it to y e oved, animate you in a vigorous adherence to that religion which inspires it; and so standfast in the Lord, as becomes those wo are so dear to him, as well as so tenderly beloved by me, and who expect by his grace so glorious a change. Transform our vile body." To 9aft.1t Tkc 1 So it and fait, &c. There is no more ta.iruianmt tpm, might literally be ren-reason for making this the beginning of a dered, the body of our humiliation, &c. that new chapter, than there would be for disis, this body in the form of sinful flesh, joining the last verse of the 1 Cor. xv. in humbled and degraded as it at present is, sense exactly parallel to this, from the preand so different from what the body of ceding discourse on the resurrection with Adam originally was. which it is so beautifully and properly con nected. 228 Reflections m a sensual temper, as enmity against God. IMPROVEMENT. Sect. And do not we also look for Christ as a Saviour f Do we not vii-hope that this vile body shall by his all victorious power be trans formed into the likeness of hit own glorious body? Is it not with ve gj this hope that we commit the dust of our friends to the grave? And is it not in this confidence that we think of our own death 20 with hope, and with cheerfulness? Why then is not our conversation more in heaven? Why have we not more frequent, solemn, and affectionate views of that better world to which we profess to be tending? Alas! have we not reason too often to-weep for ourselves as well others, that we mind earthly things so much and heavenly no more? But wretched indeed are we, if we fully 19 answer the sad character which, in professing Christians, wherever it is seen, and...