...and worthy Sister, You are truly blessed of the Lord, however an unkind world frown upon you, if you continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel. It is good there is a heaven, and it is not a night-dream or a fancy: it is a wonder that men...

...signification of the then general state of the Christian mission, at least as it appeared to Saint Paul : — " If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled,...preached to every creature which is under heaven; which Gospel, he had reminded them near the beginningt of his letter, " was present with them, as it...

...mind the same thing. — Phil. iii. 16. Stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved. — Phil. iv. 1. If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled,...away from the hope of the gospel which ye have heard, &c. — Col. i. 23. I am with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness...

...flesh through •death, to present you holy, and unЫатенЫе, and unreproveabie in his sight ; 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and. be not moved away from the hope ot the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven...

...whom he was addressing would not fail of inheriting the privileges thus obtained for them, if they continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel |(: and then announcing that they would hazard the loss of their Christian privileges, if they...

...unblamable and unreprovabli: in his sî^lit: d 23 If ye cjimmieiu iliefuiih grounded and settled, ami be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, anil which was preached to every creature Paul exhorteth CHA which is under heaven ;whereof I Paul...

...precede the possession of the latter : as it is immediately added, in that passage of the Colossians, " If ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not carried away from the hope of the Gospel which ye have heard : " and so it is also written in the fifth...

...death; to present you holy, 22 and unblamable, and unreprovable in his sight ; if ye continue in the 23 faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away...is under heaven ; whereof I Paul am made a minister ; ' who 24 now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions...

...his flesh through death, to present you holy, and unblameable, and unreprovable, in his sight : 23 If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled,...preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof'l Paul am made a minister; 24 Who now sufferinf that w rejoice in my ;s for you, and fill up...

...holy and unblameable, and irreproachable in his sight; why add that affecting expression of doubt—IF ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel ? Of the stedfastness of the church of the Thessalonians, " which was in God the Father and...