 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1826 - 582 pages
...humble Psalmist, " Such knowledge is too wonderful and excellent for us ; we cannot attain unto it (m)." WHEREFORE THEY WHICH BE ENDUED WITH SO EXCELLENT A...CALLED ACCORDING TO GOD'S PURPOSE BY HIS SPIRIT WORKING WORKING IN DUE SEASON; THEY THROUGH GRACE OBEY THE CALLING; THEY BE JUSTIFIED FREELY; that is, they... | |
 | Thomas Harwood - 1826 - 262 pages
...counsel, secret to us,' to deliver, from curse and damnation, those whom k he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting...as vessels made to honour. Wherefore they,' which he endued with so excellent a benefit of God, be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working... | |
 | Maria Stevens - 1826 - 526 pages
...so excellent a benefit," (that is being interested in this decree,) " they be called according K 2. to God's purpose, by His Spirit working in due season; they through grace obey the calling.*' This is the particular point to which our attention must now be directed. It includes two great doctrines... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1826 - 356 pages
...counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honor ;" but shall guard the doctrine from abuse, by declaring, that "for curious and carnal persons,... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 686 pages
...bring them by Christ unto everlasting salvation, as vessels made unto honour : wherefore they who are endued with so excellent a benefit of God, be called according to God's purpose,' &c. Now to avoid prolixity I will annex only such annotations, as may clear the sense, and confirm... | |
 | 1829 - 544 pages
...secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation, (4) those, whom he hath chosen (5) in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting...which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God, (6) be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season ; (7) they, through grace... | |
 | 1827 - 418 pages
...counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation, those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour; and that this doctrine is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons." And if... | |
 | 1828 - 546 pages
...himself, according to the good pleasure of his will." By virtue of this covenant, " all they,which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God, be called...calling ; they be justified freely ; they be made the sons of God by adoption; they be made like the image of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ ; they... | |
 | George Thomas Chapman - 1828 - 424 pages
...counsel, secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation, those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour." But here is nothing discrepant from my sentiments ; nothing that the clergy of the Church are indisposed... | |
 | Extracts - 1828 - 786 pages
...by his counsel, secret to us, to deliver from damnation, those whom he hath chosen in Christ, out of mankind, and to bring them, by Christ, to everlasting salvation, (as vessels made to honour.) In which definition there ate these things to be observed: 1. That predestination doth pretbpposea... | |
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Predestination to life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind,... 
