...faith is vain ; ye are yet in your sins . Then they which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished." If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men the most miserable. The system of Christianity begins in fuels which admit of no imagination. These must be true or false....

...have it daily renewed and enlarged and strengthened within us— even a "good hope through grace?" "If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable ;" for we are acting inconsistently, throwing away our birthright, despising that which...

...things to Himself." This great doctrine, so essential to the Christian, that St. Paul declares that " if in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable," has nevertheless not always met with professed belief. There have not been wanting...

...and true ChristiaHS, fall very far short of this attainment, and would scarcely, if at all, em? brace virtue and religion, if you take away the rewards...we have hope, we are of all men the most miserable, 1 Cor. xv. 19. The Apostle, indeed, does not intend these words as a direct proof of tl*e immortality...

...positions of still more frequent occurrence in the same divines, or with the declaration of St. Paul : "If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable." At all events, I should rely far more confidently on the converse, namely, that to...

...earthly hopes are chilled by undue anxieties or repressed by doubts ; and truly we may exclaim that " if in this life only we have hope ... we are of all men most miserable." The saintly George Herbert saith — " 0 let Thy Blessed Will All Thy delight in me...

...inference already cited, that those who had fallen asleep in Christ, had perished, he adds again, If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable. And again, Whystand we in jeopardy every hour, (but for the expectation of a future...

...immortality ; but the light of hope shall stream in full glory there, and clear up the dark valley. " If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men the most to be commiserated." It is not in this life that your hopes centre ; you will not be thus miserable,...

...things earthly; let our path be strewed with the sweetest flowers, yet after all they must fade. ' If in this life only we have hope, we are of all men most miserable.' But m if this be true of life's most innocent pleasures, what shall be said of those...

..."Rom. iv. 20, 21. 3 Ps. cxlii. 9-11. « Col.i. 8, 9. according to the hope of eternal Life. For if in this life only we have hope, we are of all men the most miserable.1 The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my chalice; it is thou who wilt restore...