...b at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in theßesh ; * Or, fear ; or, care. > Uly little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, Gal. iv. 19. bSee chap. iv. ver. 13. 15, 16.; Rev. i. 11.; iü. 14— 2«. . VER. 2. 'IM, агшахХид««'»...

...souls which the Apostles and Reformers did. That expression of St. Paul is a remarkable one ; " My dear children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you." (Gal. iv. 19.) Such was his concern for them, so deep was his anxiety for their salvation, that he...

...substance, are such as these : (1.) It is called the forming of Christ in the womb of a man's heart; Gal. iv. 19, " My little children of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you." (2.) It is called quickening, Ephes. ii. 1, " And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses...

...own eyes and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth ? My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,' I tell you with sorrow, that after all my confidence in you, ' I stand in doubt of you.' (Gal. iv....

...spirit, perfecting holiness, in the fear of God. Whereupon, Paul also writing to the GaJatians, says, My little children of whom I travail in birth, again until Christ be formed in you." " Whereupon the blexsnd apostle says, I testify in the Lord that ye walk not as other Gentiles walk."...

...over his face, and said, O my father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof! Gal. iv. 19. My little children; of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you. g Isa. xlix. 23. And kings shall be thy nursing-fathers, and their queens thy nursing-mothers : they...

...Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. .GAL. iv. 19 : My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you. d Ver. 9. REV. xvii. 3 : So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness : and I saw a woman...

...it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of you. Tell me,...

...is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I ara present with you. 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, 20 1 desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice ; for I stand in doubt of you. 21 Tell...

...confirmation. Then, if ever, he is prepared to meet with the apostle's expression of parental interest—' My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you.' The rite of confirmation, if not of express apostolical origin, was at least derived from apostolical...