 | Ralph Erskine - Bible - 1763 - 586 pages
...Chrift the meeting-place of thefe perfections, with a view to our redemption, To the praife of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved, Eph. i. 6. And how does he enjoy himfelf moft fweetly ? It is even in Chrift, Behold mine eleft, in whom my... | |
 | Jonathan Dickinson - 1772 - 326 pages
...by Jefits Chrift tohimfelf, according to the good pleafure of his will, 1y the praife of the glsry of his grace, -wherein he hath made us accepted in...his own fovereign pleafure, as a potter that hath ps-wcr over his clay, to make one vejfel to honour, and another ta diJhonour ; and we have no liberty... | |
 | Reformed Protestant Dutch Church (AMERICA, North) - 1793 - 402 pages
...by Jefus Chrift to himfelf, according to the good pleafure of his will, to the praife of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." Eph. i, 4, I, 6. And elfewhere, " Whom he did predeftinate, them he alfo called, and whom he called, them he... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1795 - 518 pages
...by Jefus Chrift to himfelf, according to the good pleafure of hij will, to the praife of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved," Eph. i. 5. HJW difhonourable then to thedoclrine of God's free grace and fovereignty is it, for any to alfert,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Religion - 1805 - 566 pages
...Jesus Christ to himself, according to the " good pleasure of his will ; to the praise " of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath " made us accepted in the beloved." (Eph. i. 4—6.) In short, though my objections were many, my anxiety great, and my resistance long ; yet, by... | |
 | William Gilpin - Sermons, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...There is not, be allured, a falfer interpretation than this.—Again, when you read that the potter hath power over his clay, to make one vejjel to honour, and another to diflionour, do not fuppofe, as many have done, that fome are fated from their birth to falvation, and... | |
 | William Huntington (works.) - 1811 - 424 pages
...by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved," Eph. i. 5, 6. And it is on this account that the poor Gentiles were called sons, long before they had any real knowledge... | |
 | Missions - 1838 - 716 pages
...by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved." Eph. i. 5. To maintain, then, that God elects men, in time or in eternity, because of any qualities of faith or... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Christian life - 1814 - 198 pages
...by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will ; to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." (Eph. civ 4, 6.) In short, though my objections were many, my anxiety great, and my resistance long ; yet,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - Christianity - 1818 - 144 pages
...Jesus Christ to himself, according ' to the good pleasure of his' will ; to the praise of < the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us ' accepted in the beloved.' (Eph. i. 4—6.) In short, though my objections were many, my anxiety great, and my resistance long ; yet, by... | |
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According as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love ; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself; according to the good pleasure... 
