...rapturous prayer of the apostle in Col. 1. 11, 12. that they might be strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience...the inheritance of the saints in light. They were born light, and of light, Ye were darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord, Ephes. 5. 8. Why, that...

...in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge ot God i Ver. 1 1. Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness. g Rom. vi. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death : that like as Christ was raised...

...as one, who, though utterly without strength in her human nature, ' was strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering, with joyfulness." (Col. i. 11.) I left the room almost before she had finished this quotation, and never again was permitted...

...and failed in the last act of christian fortitude. " We must pray to be strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness." For some may vigorously resist one sort of temptation, and render themselves to others. And if finally...

...fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; 11. Strengthened with al! might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and long-suffering with joyfulness; 12. Giving thanks to the Father, who hath prepared us to partake of the inheritance of the saints in...

...dignity. He has a similar remark in another place, where he exhorts the Colossians to " give jhiegs unto the Father, who had made them meet to ^ be partakers of the inheritance of the saints." (A) If election precedes this grace of God, which makes us meet to obtain the glory...

...strengthened with might in the inner man," Eph. iii. 16. Col. i. 12. " We are strengthened frith all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience, and long-suffering, with joyfulness." Affliction itself cannot strengthen us in grace, it rather weakens us ; the increase of strength flows...

...us, with " groanings which cannot be uttered ;" by which aiso, " we are strengthened with all "might, according to his glorious power, " unto all patience and long-suffering, with " joyfulness." Bur, thirdly and lastly, the spiritual religion of the gospel effecls that which the law was unable...

...in every ood work, and increasing in the IT1 . — knowledge of God ; strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience...and long-suffering, with joyfulness ; giving thanks unto me Father, who hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. The...

...fruitful in every good work, " and increasing in the knowledge of God; " strengthened with all might, according to " his glorious power, unto all patience...and longsuffering with joyfulness; giving " thanks unto the Father, which hath made " us meet to be partakers of the inheritance " of the saints in light:...