...my course with joy. I am ready not to be bound only, but to die also for the name of the Lord Jesus. If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." And in the next chapter but one to that in which the aposlle is supposed to profess himself' actually...

...deaths oft" for the benefit of the Church, and who, in the near expectation of martyrdom, could say, " If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all '."] For the further IMPROVEMENT of the subject, 1. Let us contemplate our obligations— [The love...

...sacrifice."—"To do good and to communicate forget not; for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." 0 —" If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, &c." d —" And another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden censer, and there was given...

...the time of my dissolution is at hand." As he says also to the Philippians , " If I am offered for the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." They are said to have cried with a loud voice, as the voice of innocent blood is asserted elsewhere...

...continually." To do good and to communicate, forget not, " for with such sacrifices God is well pleased." " If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice in you all.' And in Romans xv. he speaks of himself as the minister of Jesus Christ to the guilty,...

...and they recognized the fact with disinterested satisfaction. ' Yea and if I be offered,' says Paul, 'upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.' 25 ' Who now rejoice,' says he on another occasion, 'in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which...

...but almost to despair; to contemplate the possibility at least of his condemnation and martyrdom:—" Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faitk I joy and rejoice with you all." No. I. BUT can we show that St Paul visited Ephesus after his...

...only three years before his -death, he speaks in doubt of his having to suffer martyrdom. He says, " If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith." As far as our positive testimony, therefore, goes, and it is to a late period of his life, he had no...

...expected martyrdom: for he says, "I am ready . to be offered up." 2 Tim. iv. 10. And again he says, <( If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Phil. ii. 17. The same kind of figurative language is still used, but no one ever thinks of taking...

...where he expresses the fullness of his affection to the Philippians : " Yea, and if I be offered up upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." This is giving the body in the truest sense of spiritual sacrifice ; and we know whence he derived...