 | 1813 - 500 pages
...the elect among the Thessalonians — "We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, — because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth." * By sitnfily considered, the writer doubtless means viewing the person by... | |
 | 1833 - 638 pages
...the purification of the heart, — I. To God the Father, as the originating and appointing cause. " God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth."— 2 Thess. ii. 13. II. To Christ as the meritorious cause. " Unto him that... | |
 | 1813 - 580 pages
...ii. 13. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth : Ver. 14. Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining; of the... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 546 pages
...them he also coiled. — We give thanks to God always for you brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. — As many as were ordained to eternal life, believed," Eph. i. 4. Rom. ix.... | |
 | 1815 - 412 pages
...elect among the Thessalonians — '' We are bound to give thanks always to God for you, — because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of (he Spirit and belief of the truth," 3. God may sincerely invite all, where the gospel comes, to accept... | |
 | Seth Williston - 1817 - 284 pages
...effect ; or as the motive precedes the action produced by it. Here follows the passage : " God hiuh from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through...subject, entertain the thought, that the apostle meant to «y, That Goil from the beginning chose these persons to salvation because he foresaw they would be... | |
 | 1817 - 610 pages
...consequence of God's purpose to save them. The Apostle Paul, writing to the Thessalonian Christians, saith, "God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth." In like manner to the Ephesians — "according aa he hath chosen us in him... | |
 | 1817 - 370 pages
...calleth things that are not as though they were. 9. This is also plain from those words of St. Paul, ' God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. ' Now, If the saints are chosen to salvation, through believing of the truth,... | |
 | Thornhill Kidd - 1817 - 804 pages
...ii. 13. But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord ; because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth. J. HE works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1817 - 530 pages
...religion by baptism.' • Phil. L 19. " that we should be holy, and without blame before him "in love." "God hath from the beginning, chosen " you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit " and belief of the truth; whereunto he hath called you " by our Gospel, to the obtaining of the glory... | |
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But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth : 14 Whereunto He called you by our Gospel, to... 
