...chastisements, still thankful for his blessings, still ready to exclaim in the language of Scripture — ' We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed;' when we see such things, where is the man, whose soul does not melt within him at the...

...peril, or sword \ Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through Hini that loved us."§ " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of...

...cxxiv, 2, 3.) " There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man." (1 Cor. x, 13.) " We are perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted,...cast down, but not destroyed." (2 Cor. iv, 8, 9.) God permitted Satan, First, " To put forth his hand upon all that Job had,'" but not to touch him ;...

...is ever trying " to get an advantage over us," to alienate the heart, and weaken the affections, " we are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair." Full well we know, that it is not by the eloquence of man, which may charm the ear, but not the heart,...

...tormented, yet it was all joy, and triumph, and exultation of heart. ' We are troubled,' says St. Paul, ? on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair ; as dying, and behold we live ; as chastened, but not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing ;...

...every earthly interest, and all mortal happiness; the motive assigned is equal to their conduct. " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, yet not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down but not destroyed; knowing that He, which...

...chastisements, still thankful for his blessings, still ready to exclaim in the language of Scripture — ' We are troubled on. every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, 39 but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed;' when we see such...

...day." The same is expressed more particularly in the eighth, ninth, and tenth verses of that chapter, " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of...

...is hopelessness ; confirmed despondency; and sometimes expresses the cause of such a state of mind. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; we are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Cur. iv. 3. Other cries among the Irish savor of the Scythian barbarism ; as the lamentations of...

...troubled on every side; without were fightings within were fears," and yet say with the same apostle, " We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed...despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." It is not meant by this to condemn an earnest desire to abound in hope, or -a frequent...