...present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight," &c. He tells the Thessalonians, " Ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God ; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who delivered us from the wrath to come." He affirms...

...two-fold division of the work of grace I find in another part of Scripture : l Thess. i. 9, i0 : " How ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God ; and to wait for his Son from heaven." Now, with respect to the power by which either, or both, of these Divine effects is wrought...

...(a,-rt*n\ir^it) of our Lord Jesus Christ." So it is said of the Thessalonians, " they turned from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven," 1 Epistle,!. 10. This was the great object that was kept in view by the primitive saints; they are described...

...has, by the enthusiasm of His Servants and the foolishness of their preaching, turned many from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven. Nor should it be overlooked, that there are some who view the work in Tinnevelly in a very...

...followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, &c. ye turned to God, to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son. — 1 Thess. i. 3—6.9,10. The word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe : for...

...our people now, than it had upon the Thessalonians to whom St. Paul was able to appeal, as having " turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven :" concerning whom he could " thank God without ceasing, because when they received the word...

...any thing. For they themselves show of us what manner of entering in 9 we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, ' and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he 10 raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. or...

...Christian's duty : " For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God; and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come." (i. 9,...

...impression that the day of Christ's coming was at hand ; " They turned from idols to serve the living God, and to wait for his Son from heaven," 1 Thess. i. 9, 10. Their " conversation was in heaven, from whence also they looked for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,"...

...converted at Thessalonica. The Apostle afterwards reminds them of this happy change of condition ; " how they turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come1." Whether...