 | Gift books - 1839 - 374 pages
...live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labor; yet which I shall choose I wot not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to abide in the flesh is more needful for you." The one engaged... | |
 | Henry Martyn - Bengal (India) - 1839 - 928 pages
...remarks of that holy man were the means of rich and abundant comfort to me. Truly I can say—" I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." l4. ' Suavissima vita est indies sentire se fieri meliorem.' So I can say from... | |
 | 1839 - 678 pages
...FAWCETT. the many snares to which youth is exposed, I am ready to say -with the apostle : ' I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." My great difficulty of late, has been a kind of regardless temper of mind, which... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Methodist conferences - 1856 - 706 pages
...of his reason, and in the full and triumphant hope of a blissful immortality. He said, " I -am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better." Our beloved brother Mason was a good preacher, holy and exemplary in all his... | |
 | Thomas William B. Aveling - 1840 - 296 pages
...close of life Paul could say, " I have kept the faith," and this emboldened him to add " I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ." Finally : keeping the faith, forms a delightful contrast to denying it. Hymeneus and Philetus erred... | |
 | Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1842 - 470 pages
...: " For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." (i. 21.) And afterwards he adds, " For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ which is far better." (v. 23.) From this it appears that the apostle believed the casting off of his... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 514 pages
...they are constantly travelling to the grave. Like Paul, they die daily ; and like him, they are in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better than travelling the rugged road of life. This is their habitual feeling; and though... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Theology - 1842 - 516 pages
...they are constantly travelling to the grave. Like Paul, they die daily ; and like him, they are in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better than travelling the rugged road of life. This is their habitual feeling; and though... | |
 | Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1843 - 642 pages
...because bis Lord should be with him, and his staff should support bis steps ; (Psalm xxiii.) and Paul was " in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ," nevertheless, satisfied to await his time, that he might be magnified by his life or death. Phil. i.... | |
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For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and be with Christ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. 
