| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 512 pages
...witness in himself, Gal. i. 14, 15, 16. Being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." If it be so, that that is a spiritual conviction of the divinity and reality of the things exhibited... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1808 - 514 pages
...witness in himself, Gal. i. 14, 15, 16. Being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." If it be so, that that is a spiritual conviction of the divinity and reality of the things exhibited... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1803 - 572 pages
...him for such a subjection of them to the gospel, and liberal distribution to them. Gal. i. 15,1 6. " But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles," compared with 2 Cor. iv. 6, 7, and the account which he gives himself of his conversion,... | |
| Joseph Hall (bp. of Norwich.) - 1808 - 582 pages
...my mother's womb, to this work of my Apostleship, a»d of his mere grace and mercy called me. I. 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not withflesh and blood. To reveal his Son Christ unto me, not for my own private good only, but, that... | |
| Samuel Stillman - 1808 - 428 pages
...while others were left in their unbelief. Paul always ascribes his conversion to the grace of God. " When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace." In another place he says, " By the grace of God I am what I am." If so, it follows as an undeniable... | |
| John Pawson - 1809 - 434 pages
...When it pleased God," saith the) Apostle, " who separated me from my mother's womb, and culled Hie by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might...immediately I conferred not with. flesh and blood." Such ought every preacher of the Gospel to be, and then he will preach Christ and him, crucified, and... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 554 pages
...knowledge of Christ in conversion, as of what before was hidden and unseen in that. Gal. i. 15, 16. " But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me." The scripture also speaks plainly of such a knowledge of the word of God, as has been described, as... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1809 - 540 pages
...knowledge of Christ in conversion, as of what before was hidden and unseen in that. Gal. i. 15, 16. " But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me." The scripture also speaks plainly of such a knowledge of the word of God, as has been described, as... | |
| William Paley - 1810 - 406 pages
...Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God." Acts, L 2 chap. ix. 20. " When it pleased God to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among...immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." Gal. chap. i. 15. 4. The course of the apostle's travels after his conversion was this: He went from... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 502 pages
...account of his conversion will confirm this statement. " It pleased God" (says he, Gal. i. 15, 16) "who separated me " from my mother's womb, and called me by His " grace, to reveal His Son in me." The good pleasure of God was the impulsive cause of his vocation, and Divine grace the efficient. And... | |
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