...evil is spoken of them falsely, for His sake who loveth them. They are troubled on every side, but not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; cast down, but not destroyed ; always bearing about in their body the dying of the Lord Jesus ! " The storm may rise higher. They...

...nor sword, menaces nor laws, persecution nor prospect of martyrdom can deter him from his purpose. "Troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed," is his language. He feels too that...

...also. Christ shall be magnified in. my body, whether it be by life or by death." To the Corinthians, " long exercised his ministry, persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, hut not destroyed ; always bearing about in the body the...

...also abounds with Christ.' 2 Cor. i. 5, 6, 7. And so it is no new thing for the Christians now, to be troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair, for our light afflictions which are but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal...

...perhaps very often, with crying "out of the depths," but ends with triumph, and sometimes with rapture. Troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; Persecuted, but not forsahen ; cast down, but not destroyed. (2 Cor. iv. 8, 9.) Alone — alone —...

...nre, but not consumed ; or the ship suffering from the winds and waves, but not sinking. He may be troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...but not in despair ; cast down, but not destroyed : and in his lowest circumstances he can chide and encourage himself in the Lord his God — "Why art...

...is in this situation that the true force of his character exhibits itself. It is when we see him ' troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken of confidence ; regardless of suffering, because supported by the cause...

...has had to sustain ? But it must be time enough for us to rest when we get to heaven. St. Paul was " troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed, but not in despair ; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyede :" " for which cause he fainted notf."...

...fire, but not consumed ; or the ship suffering from the winds and waves, but not sinking. He may be troubled on every side, yet not distressed ; perplexed,...but not in despair ; cast down, but not destroyed : and in his lowest circumstances he can chide and encourage himseli in the Lord his God — " Why...

...lose courage or give over. In the words of the great Apostle, himself a model in this kind, "he is troubled on every side, yet not distressed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken ; cast down, but not destroyed." Bruised and wounded, discomfited once...