...should the written and dispensed word of God be treated ? life : And they are they which testify of me.- In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word...ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.- As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may glow thereby: If so...

...predestinated according to " the purpose of him who worketh all things after " the counsel of his own will ; [that we should be " to the praise of his glory who...after that ye " heard the word of truth, the gospel of your sal" vation : in whom also, after that ye believed, ye " were sealed with that Holy Spirit...

...the written and dispensed word of God be treated ? 81 life : And they are they which testify of me.- In whom ye also, trusted, after that ye heard the...word of truth, the gospel of your salvation : in whom ;,!so after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise.- As new-horn babrs,...

...the Gentile convert?. That the Jews were not without hope, or without God in the world, appears 13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the Gospel of your salvation : iu whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,...

...predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: 12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. PARAPHRASE. 11 Christ; In whom we became his possession 5 and the lot of his inheritance, being predetermined...

...of salvation, or a better state, into the kingdom of God. Hence it is that he says, chap. i. 12, " That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first believed." To which he seems to have an eye in this verse ; the first conversion of the Gentiles being...

...thought of salvation, or a better state, into the kingdom of God. Hence it is that he says, chap. i. 12, "That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first believed." To which he seems to have an eye in this verse ; the first conversion of the Gentiles being...

...written in the book of life, and to say to him, Rejoice, because thy name is written in heaven. So Paul ; In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word...ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, Eph. i. 13. . So Micah; Rejoice not against me, 0 mine enemy, for when I fall, I shall...

...;' but " as knowing " that our labour is not in vain in the Lord." ' ' " In whom (namely in Christ) ye also trusted, ' after that ye heard the word of...ye ' believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of ' promise." The order to be here noticed is this ; ' first, the hearing of the word ; secondly,...

...glory, who first trusted * Page 20. t John viii. 42,112. 2 Cor. vi. 17, 18. $ Page 21. VOL. II. 40 in Christ. In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvati-m. — I know whom I have trusted, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that...