was this design therefore the effect of levity? or do I design first one thing, and then another, as it best suits my worldly interest?

) in this assurance, I say, I think it best to be quit of this body, and be present with the Lord.

for when I came to Macedonia, I had no respit from the trouble that beset me on every side: oppositions from without, and apprehensions within.

Pray then, dispatch this affair; as you readily undertook it, as readily perform it, to the best of your abilities.

for if the Macedonians should come with me, and find you unprepared, how shall I, not to say you, be ashamed for having had so little ground to boast of you?

I will not boast of any thing done without my province, but confine myself within that line by which God has mark'd out my bounds, and in which you are included.