 | Methodist Church - 1834 - 544 pages
...children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise and glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved,' Eph. i, 4-6; see also verses 9, 10, and 11, of this chapter, in which the same thing is taught. I conceive... | |
 | Jonathan Dickinson - Apologetics - 1835 - 368 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. He acts in this case II 3 according to his own sovereign pleasure, as a " potter that hath power over his clay, to... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1838 - 456 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. Every view which can possibly be taken of Divine adoption, is most affectingly interesting to Christians.... | |
 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 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. This, with what is mentioned in the two former verses, are wholly and all of them supralapsarian blessings,... | |
 | Samuel James Allen - 1835 - 438 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. 3—6.) The blessedness of this union is the gain of godliness ; being in Christ, blessed in him ;... | |
 | George W Straton - 1837 - 388 pages
...Earth. Rev. xiv. 3. Your very Affectionate Minister <ii. --,:.,;. W STRATON. 'To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved." — Eph. i. G Lord of creation's wondrous frame And Israel's faithful God Our song shall loud thy grace proclaim... | |
 | Mennonites - Mennonites - 1837 - 476 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. 1: 4-6. — Who hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according... | |
 | Francis Ellaby - Baptism - 1838 - 272 pages
...adopted, and "according to the good pleasure of his will," are alike saved ; " to the praise and glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved" (Eph. i. 5, 6), even in him, at whose baptism a voice was heard, saying, " This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well... | |
 | 1838 - 668 pages
...CHRIST UPON THE OPENING OP THE NEW YEAR, 1S&S. DEARLY BELOVED IN THK LORD, To the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved, Eph. i. 6 of, the numbered moments of one year, has passed before, and like its predecessors gone for ever,... | |
 | 1838 - 786 pages
...by Jesus Christ unto 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. It is impossible to gainsay these' words : they directly assert that the saints, the people of God,... | |
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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... 
