| James Caughey - Methodist Church - 1857 - 462 pages
...of our right hand. How little some understand St. Paul, where he says, " My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you." — Gal. iv. 19. We will not forget they are our Benonis, — all the dearer for that recollection. An old divine compares... | |
| Rev. Alexander Carson - Baptism - 1857 - 572 pages
...born of water is to be washed in the blood of Christ. When Paul says : " My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you," Gal. iv. 19, is there any literal travailing in birth ? "I bare you on eagles' wings," Exodus xix. 4, is a similar... | |
| William Patton - 1858 - 80 pages
...the salvation of men, so the apostle tells of a similar experience : " My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you," Gal. iv. 19 ; " For in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel," 1 Cor. iv. 15 ; " Whom I have begotten... | |
| 1858 - 930 pages
...prayer, are its life and peculiarity. — " if y little children," says the apostle Paul, " of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you." (Gal. iv. 19.) A carnal, indifferent, and careless preacher will soon weary his hearers away, or else lull them down... | |
| Mary Ann Kelty - 1860 - 388 pages
...the soul, that the individual can boldly assert " I know the Lord." xc. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you. Gal. iv. 19. The analogy which subsists throughout the kingdom of nature, would lead us with reason, to expect a similar... | |
| Adam Clarke - 1860 - 718 pages
...Religious Conference between M. and E. ;" with this motto, " ' I write unto you, little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you,' Gal. iv, 19. May what is sown in weakness be raised in power ! 'Written for the use of my children, 171 1-12." See... | |
| Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln) - 1860 - 296 pages
...of the working of His grace, transferred to them. Hence St. Paul says, " My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, until Christ be formed in you" (Gal. iv. 1!)). So, in a figurative sense, the Church is in labour with children, till Christ be formed in them.... | |
| Joseph Hall - Theology - 1863 - 658 pages
...hand of God, Col. iii. i. of his sufferings and glory : My little children, saith St. Paul, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, Gal. iv. 19. Lo here Christ both conceived and born in the faithful heart. Formation follows conception, and travail... | |
| Johannes Evangelist Gossner - 1864 - 484 pages
...resound in thee, and no peace ever be in thee ? DECEMBER THE TWENTY-NINTH. " My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you." — GAL. iv. 19. " Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ ? that your body is the temple of the Holy... | |
| Churches of Christ - 1865 - 452 pages
...HOLY SPIRIT. 417 that the language is figurative ; as, for instance : " My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you" (Gal. iv. 19.) And where the context requires thatthe words tv i¡íiv shall be taken in their literal signification... | |
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