...Therefore we are always confident, knowing, that while we are at home in the body, we arc ab" sent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. In this passage the Apostle declares expressly, that to...

...release from the toils of life desirable to himself. He seemed to feel as the apostle did when he said, " We are confident, I say, and willing rather, to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." To a pious friend he expressed the hope, and settled conviction,...

...whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."* Nor was such certainty confined, as some have affirmed,...

...whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord ;" 2 Cor.v. 1, &c. "Ttfow also Christ shall be magnified...

...we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. (For we walk by faith, and not by sight.) We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and present with the Lord ;" 2 Cor. v. 1,2. 8, 9. Though the abode of the godly in the flesh...

...are a Christian. "Ah," says Paul, " I long to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better." "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." What would every thing be in his absence! Could the place, the...

...signify continuance in the present life. He says : " Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from...confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord." He esteemed it desirable that his present life should terminate,...

...with hands, eternal in the heavens. We are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we...

...' are at home in the body we are ' absent from the Lord ; (for we ' walk by faith, not by sight :) we ' are confident, I say, and willing ' rather to be absent from the body ' and present with the Lord."g These two Scriptures are very embarrassing to Dr. Burnet an'd...

...whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord : (for we walk by faith, not by sight.) We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord." " For the which cause I also suffer these things : nevertheless...