...covered their calumniators with shame, and disarmed numbers of their persecutors : they have been indeed a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people : yet they have confessed, without exception, that they came far short of that excellence to which...

...to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus E 4 Christ." And again, in9th verse, "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...

...and glorious the chartered privileges enjoyed by it! Believers are her favoured citizens, and they are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, called to be saints on earth, as members of his church below, and kings and priests unto God in the...

...in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath foreordained that they should walk in them." " They are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that they should shew forth the praises of him, who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous...

...from the first to the last saint which shall be gathered in, but the congregation of God's elect — " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," 2 whom he has selected to set forth the glory of his grace upon earth, and who, when gathered from...

...communion with the Father and the Son, living in eternity, and walking in eternity. I looked to see " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," in the whole tenor of their conversation " showing forth his praise, who had called them into his marvellous...

...shmc forth my praise. Observo now the parallel language of the New Testament. 1 Pet. ii. 9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, (Xaos sif irepiTonirfiv) that ye should shotr forth the praises, «.',•<' Eph. ii. 10. For we are...

...to them which stumble at the word, being, disobedient; whercunto also they were appointed. 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 bath called you out of darkness into his marvellous...

...week to break bread, and might do so still, even if they had no muiister! Dear me, this ig making them "a chosen generation, a royal Priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people;'' but please to remember they are the "laity," and we preachers are the "Lord's anointed, ''and as to...

...Christ walketh among them ; remember his presence, and see that you are diligent in your work. They are " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, to show forth the praises of Him that hath called them." And will you neglect them ? What a high honour...