 | Thomas Ridgley - 1815 - 600 pages
...a short, but very comprehensive description of those who are fit matter for a church, when he says, We are the circumcision •which -worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesiu, and have no confidence in the Jlesh, Phil. iii. 3. It follows, from hence, that every religious... | |
 | John Bunyan - 1816 - 810 pages
...salvation, but of damnation, is common among men: For they, and they only are the right men, " who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Where byjtesh, must not be meant the horrible transgressions against the the law, (though... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 544 pages
...circumcision appeared. Philip. iii. 3. " For we are the circumcision, which worship God VOL. VII. D in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." And in Rom. ii. 28, 29, the apostle speaks of this Christian and Jewish circumcision... | |
 | Thomas Hannam - Preaching - 1818 - 244 pages
...have humbling views of their own character and services (ITim. i. 15; Luke xvii. 10.); and are " of the circumcision which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no con•Cdence in the flesh." II. The service in which such shall be employed in the heavenly state.... | |
 | Edward Cooper - Sermons, English - 1818 - 384 pages
...world." Bear in mind, that if you are of the true circumcision, who, as St. Paul describes them, " worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh * ;" you may, indeed, have no praise of men, but you have something which infinitely surpasses... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - Bible - 1818 - 490 pages
...expressly declared. . We are the circumcision, says St. Paul of himself and regenerated Christians, which, worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidtnce in the flesh.1 In Christ also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands,... | |
 | Church of England articles - 1821 - 234 pages
...of God : but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Cor. ii. 17. We are the circumcision, which worship God in the...and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the fiesh : though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he... | |
 | William Gurnall - Christian life - 1821 - 512 pages
...and unmixed, or have none at all. " We (saith holy Paul for himself, and all other sincere believers) are the circumcision, which worship God in the Spirit,...and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh." Phil. iii. 3. As if he had said, We are not short of any in holy duties and services... | |
 | William Romaine - Christian life - 1821 - 282 pages
...delight in God. May the apostle's experience herein be thine — " We are of the circumcision, who " worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, " and have no confidence in the flesh." O pray for the same grace, and thou wilt find, that the less confidence there is in... | |
 | William Jay - Families - 1821 - 294 pages
...our hearts are far from Thee. Unite our hearts to fear thy name : and grant, that we may worship Thee in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. We remember that we are sinners, and acknowledge the multitude and aggravations of our... | |
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For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 
