...Father of lights ; with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow...

...good gift, and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights,wr.:i whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us, with ths word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. v Put on therefore...

...created him." Of the Christian Jews he says, including himself in the number, "of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures" ie of those who profess the Gospel. The 'anguage of the apostle James is similar : " of his own will...

...gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom • is no variableness neither shadow of turning. Of his...with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow...

...elect, and infuses into them a principle of spiritual life. " Because of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures," James i. 18. Paul, of old, asked the Galatians, chap. iii. 2. " This only would I learn of you, received...

...incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever. James i. 8. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 2 Pet. i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Lukexx. 36....

...Father of lights, with whom is uo variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of liis own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures. '9 ^f ^ herefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,...

...whither it goeth ; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Jam. i. 18. " Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures." What Christ meant by being born again, we may leanr by the abundant use of the like phrase by the same...

...Father of lights, with whom. is no variableness, neither sha* c!ow of turning. Of his own ll begat he us with the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creaures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath;...

...I observed before, those which were in good standing) chap. i. IS. " Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.. ..The Apostle Peter, writing to the Jewish Christians, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,...