 | Richard Allestree (D.D.) - 1728 - 560 sivua
...our affeftions on this world, but to raife them according to the precept of the Apoftle, Col. iii. 2. Set your affections on things above , and not on things on the earth ; continually longing to come to the pofleflion of that blefied inheritance of ours, in com- j parifon... | |
 | Jonathan Dickinson - 1772 - 326 sivua
...thofe things which are above, where ' Chiift .fitteth at the right hand of God, and when you ' place your affections . on things above, and not on ' things on the earth,' Col. iii. i. 2. Labour to clear up this doubt, by the exercife of all the feveral graces of the Spirit... | |
 | James Beattie - 1786 - 166 sivua
...tendency to debafe the mind, and difqualify it for future happinefs. Set thereVOL. II. C fore fore your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. Let it be your fupreme defire to obtain God's favour : and, by a courfe of difcipline, begun here and... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1796 - 512 sivua
...inclination mounts up this way. 5. He mounts up in heavenly affe&ions : hence is that injunction, " Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth," Col, iii. 2. He endeavours, through grace, to have his affectkm fome way eorrefponding with God's affection,... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - 1798 - 630 sivua
...rifen with Chrift, ye will not be going down the wildernefs, but going upward, ye will be " fetting your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth." I conclude with a word of exhortation to dead finners. 0 dead finners ! will you come to Chrift, the... | |
 | Champions - 1800 - 462 sivua
...pleafures have a tendency to debafe the mind, and difqualify it for future happinefs. Set therefore your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. Let it be your fupreme defire to obtain God's favour : and, by a couife of difcipline, begun here,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1802 - 508 sivua
...rifen -with Chrift, feek tboj'e things which are above where Cbrijl Jittetb on the right band of God. Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth*. A certain conformity with Chrift, their great leader, in all the circumftances of his hiftory, is in... | |
 | Samuel Davies - 1802 - 456 sivua
...fatal to his fecular, are the mercy of God to his eternal intereft ; and fay, with the facred text, Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth.* If even kings cannot extract perfect happinefs from things below ; if the grofs, unfubftantial, and... | |
 | Edward Young - 1802 - 146 sivua
...however fatal to his secular, are the mercy of God as to his eternal' interest ; and say with my text, " Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth." Let us now, from the throne, look back (as from an eminence), on the former part of our journey; we... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1805 - 644 sivua
...risen with Christ, sect those things which arc above, where Christ citteth on the right hand of God. 2 Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. S For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. с Dishonourable talitfyîn% of the flesh.']... | |
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Set your affections on things above, and not on things on the earth. 
