...like Joseph cast, How archers shot and grieved the* ; | And rais'd, like him, a Prince at lajt. What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the...

...our Lord Jesus Christ, by •whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world." Again, " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord ; for whom I have suffered the...

...of the law: for " by the works of the law shall no flesh be just i" fied." (Gal. 5i. 15, 16.) "What things were " gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. " Yea, doubtless, and 1 count all things but loss " for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ " Jesus my Lord; for whom...

...was, in fact, the effect of this love in St. Paul. " What things were gain to me, those," says he, " I counted loss for Christ ; yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord ; for whom I have actually suffered...

...learnt from experience to «ay, " God forbid that I sbouffl glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.. ..Yea, doubtless, and I count all things...excellency of the knowledge of C'hri.st Jesus my Lord... I do count them but dung, that J may win Christ, and be found in Kim, cot having mine own righteousness,...

...forbid," says he, " that I should glory save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ." And again, " But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, &c. that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteous* ness which...

...admitted into the school of his Lord and Master ; which he expresses in the following words. " What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss^or tlie excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord : That / may know him," fcfc....

...labour ; in a deep, piercing sense of which he was at length constrained to cry out, " The things which were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ: Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord," Phil. iii. 7, 8. 15. It could...

...upon his precious blood and righteousness, as its only ground of hope towards God. Thus it is led to say with the Apostle, What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ. — 'That I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the...

...the truth, and sell it not : and St. Paul's language concerning himself, .illustrates both. " What things were gain to me those I " counted loss for Christ : yea, doubtless and I " couuf all things but loss, for the excellency of the " knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whom...