...immortality ? Seeing we are made with capacities for the fruition of an eternal God, " let us not bs looking at the things " which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are un" seen and eternal.1' Let nothing but this great, infinite, and eternal t Jehovah, form a satisfaction...

...immortality ? Seeing we are made with capacities for the fruition of an eternal God, " let us not be looking at the things " which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are un" seen and eternal.'' Let nothing but this great, infinite, and eternal Jehovah, form a satisfaction...

...worldly comforts, as though we rejoiced not, and weeping under worldly sorrows, as though we wept not ; looking not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are not seen, and eternal ; firmly believing, and humbly exulting, in the persuasion, and the prospect,...

...have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him. We look not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are not seen and eternal. We are willing, therefore, to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord....

..." I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me ;" and if by faith ye " look" steadily, " not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are unseen and eternal, your light afflictions, which are but for a. moment, will work out for you a far more exceeding and...

...for we are actually communicating mor al benefit. -Every thing that induces the human mind <o foreg* immediate gratification for distant good ; every thing...not at the things which are seen and temporal, but the things which are unseen and eternal." In some Schools, children have in this way aided in the support...

...from this publication. It is designed, and the Committee believe calculated, to lead men to " look not. at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are not seen, and eternal;" and to impress upon them, that "godliness is profitable unto all things, having...

...commanding us to set our affections on things above ; — to lay up treasures in Heaven, and to look not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are unseen and eternal, — does yet descend to even the smaller particulars which belong to a prudent care for present comfort...

...of sight and of faith : wherefore it is written, "We walk by faith, and not by sight." And again; " Looking not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are unseen and eternal." Now, let us transfer this reasoning from the outward world to the world within us — from the object...

...are the following : — " Set your affections on things above, not on things of the earth,"— " look not at the things which are seen and temporal, but at the things which are unseen, and which are eternal." These passages seem all to inculcate heavenly-mindedness, — a grace or virtue,...