| Hervey Wilbur - 1829 - 444 páginas
...to them which stumhle at the word, heing disohedient: whereunto also they were appointed. d 9 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous... | |
| John Wesley - 1829 - 544 páginas
...excellence and perfection; answerable to that strong description which St. Peter cites from Moses : " Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people." And such, without all doubt, the first Christian Church, which commenced at the day of Pentecost, was.... | |
| 1833 - 684 páginas
...to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Clirist." And again, verse 9, "Bat ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, thai ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1829 - 738 páginas
...laws, and has a national establishment and public maintenance. We have thus the complete frame-work of a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. Alas! that it should now have become so generally only the framework ! like the magnificent ruins of... | |
| Rev. Jonathan Dickinson - 1829 - 520 páginas
...to prompt us to a life of holiness, we, who profess ourselves Christians, should approve ourselves " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, to show forth the praises of him who has called us out of darkness into his marvellous light." Indeed... | |
| James Freeman - 1829 - 286 páginas
...writers of the New Testament, and in particular St. Paul, dwell with great delight. We have so long been a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that we now consider this privilege as our birthright, and are too often unmindful of the extent of... | |
| Thomas Dudley Fosbroke - 1829 - 1254 páginas
...the Spirit, to save us from our sins, to build us up as living temples to his honour ; to make us " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," that we might show forth his praise. And of this we may safely assure ourselves, that if Christ dwell... | |
| Richard Baxter - 1830 - 590 páginas
...banquetings, and abominable idolatry," who do you think he meaneth? And when he saith, (1 Pet. ii. 9.) '* Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should shew forth the praises of him that hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous... | |
| John Stark Ravenscroft (bp. of North Carolina.) - 1830 - 642 páginas
...GOD ; in which sense, all Christians, by virtue of their baptism, are a holy people unto the LORD. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, says St. Peter : and, generally, in the Acts of the Apostles, and in the epistles, Christians are addressed... | |
| John Wesley - 1830 - 568 páginas
...excellence and perfection ; answerable to that strong description which St. Peter cites from Moses : " Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people." And such, without all doubt, the first Christian church, which commenced at the day of pentecost, was.... | |
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