...testimony, and love not their lives unto the death,* this is called a sacrifice, Phil. ii. 17, " yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all :" the word <nrtv$ofnai signifies a being poured out as a drink-ofFering,f which was an appurtenance...

...Christ should be magnified in his body, whether it were by life or by death." " Yea," says he, "and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Oh ! what a noble principle is this that renders a man willing to suffer and to die for Christ, " for...

...accession ; all that he did, was for his church. And this St. Paul sealeth with his own example, "If 1 be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all."2 And elsewhere, " I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, though the more abundantly I...

...this respect, in his epistle to the Philippians : " Yea, and if I be offered [margin, poured forth] upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with ycu all ;" and, in his second epistle to Timothy, he seems to have taken a step still further in advance,...

...I may rejoice in the day of Christ that I have not run in vain, neither laboured, in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of...joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you,...

...that marks how willing he was to spend and to be spent for the churches ; and that hears him saying, " If I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all." Never were labours so extensive and zeal more enlarged than his. He travelled, and preached, and wrote,...

...God, which is your reasonable service." There is a closing sacrifice of them, at our death. " Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all." There is the offering of the Gentiles. " That the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable,...

...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,...

...sense I read Paul's epistle to the Colossians, i. 24. — ' Who now rejoice in my sufferings, and fill up that which is behind of the sufferings of Christ...Cor. i. 6. ' And whether we be afflicted, it is for y<fu^consolation and salvation ; and whether we be comforted, it is for your salvation and consolation.9...

...tribulation, he will sing praises in torture, and will exclaim, with St. Paul, on another occasion, ' Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all.'§ " On the contrary, of what advantage is wealth or station, or official authority, to him whose awakening...