 | Thomas Boston - Theology, Doctrinal - 1812 - 560 pages
...if our lot be not brought up to our mind, we must bring down our mind to our lot, as Paul did, Phil, iv, 11, 12. ' Not that I speak in respect of want...where, and in all things I am instructed, both to be fuH and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. ' In this submission to the will of the Lord... | |
 | Francis Gastrell - Bible - 1812 - 378 pages
...Prov. 11 »9. W Pr0v. 10. 4, Prov. 13. 4. (J) Prov. 19. >J. (0 Prov. 6. 9, 10, II r CONTENTMENT. (f) I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound;...and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I have learnt in whatsoever state 1 am, therewith to be content. (g) Lst every man abide in the same... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1812 - 586 pages
...last your care of me hath flourished again ; wherein ye were also careful, but ye lacked opportunity : not that I speak in respect of want ; for I have learned...know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound ; ever}' where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and... | |
 | William Jay - Devotional literature - 1812 - 284 pages
...of Darius, and in the lion's den. This enabled Paul to say, " I know both how to be abased, ami " 1 know how to abound : every where and in all things...I am instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, botli " to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things " through Christ which strengtheneth me."... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Bible - 1813 - 638 pages
...brethren. We have a remarkable testimony to this part of his character in his Epistle to the Philippians. "Not that I speak in respect of want; for I have learned,...all things, I am instructed both to be full and to bo hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengthenetht... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - Sermons, English - 1813 - 462 pages
...teacheth us to be happy in any condition, how mean soever it may be. " I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content : I know both...to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need," Phil. iv. 11, 12. 5. Consider the peace which piety diffuseth in the conscience. The prosperity of... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1813 - 480 pages
...This, in Gentile philosophy, is the same with the discourse of St. Paul, I have learned in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content; I know both how...every where and in all things I am instructed both how to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and suffer need*. We are in the world like men playing... | |
 | William Bates - Presbyterianism - 1815 - 544 pages
...mind, the blessed imitation of the divine unchangeableness. St. Paul saith, without vain arrogance, " I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound:...to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need." Phil. 4. 12. It was a secret of spirit, not learned from men, but from the holy Spirit of God. In some... | |
 | Samuel Lavington - Sermons, English - 1815 - 622 pages
...thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law :" and she could add, with the Apostle, " I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound....I am instructed, both to be full, and to be hungry ; to abound, and to suffer need, For I have learnt, jn whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content."... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...that doth otherwise, fights against God, and declares that that he is a, stranger to that of Paul : " I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound...instructed, both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to sutler need," . Bitten. But Mr. Badman would not, I believe, have put this difference betwixt... | |
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Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to... 
