 But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of .darkness into his marvellous light...  The New Englander - Stran 991880Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1848 - 726 strani
...door-keepers and the sweepers of the floor were Levites. But if we are Christ's, we each belong to " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people." He hath made all that are washed in his own blood " Kings and Priests " unto God. Every Christian must... | |
 | George Fox - 1803 - 436 strani
...household of faith,' Gal. vi. 10. Peter in his general epistle tells the church of Christ, they were 'a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people,' 1 Pet. ii. 9. And that as lively stones, they were built up ' a spiritual house, an holy priesthood,... | |
 | Philip Doddridge - 1807 - 428 strani
...breath of God be rendered utterly vain and ineffectual. Are we conscious of our high dignity, as we are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people ? Are our hearts suitably affected with a sense of the divine goodness, in calling us to be a people,... | |
 | Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry.) - 1809 - 578 strani
...people : Titus ii. 14. and, 1 Pet. ii. 9. they are called by many special and discriminating titles : a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people : they are called his portion, and the lot of his inheritance : Deut. xxxii. 9. The Lord's portion... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 572 strani
...kings, that they may do only his will, and conduct themselves to his glory : Peter saith to them, " Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people ; that ye should show forth the praises of him who halh called you out of darkness into his marvellous... | |
 | Robert Traill - 1810 - 544 strani
...xliii. 21. See what a gr?at preambl- the apostle makes to this matter of pr lise ; 1 Pet. ii. 9. Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that ye should ahevr forth the prifises of him that hath coiled you into his marvelleat light. What... | |
 | Johannes van der Kemp - 1810 - 548 strani
...create a party, even in religion. But the Lord God, having appointed for himself an everlasting people, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that they might shew forth his praise, hath made Iris will known to them, and thus also the proper... | |
 | 1810 - 596 strani
...second illustration, he considers the terms "elect", "called", "saints", and the phrases " in Christ" " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," as used only to distinguish the professors of Christianity from the rest of mankind, particularly from... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1810 - 556 strani
...in prayer, are evidently supposed to be true believers, those whom the Apostle Peter describes as " a chosen generation, a royal " priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," appointed ** to shew forth the praises of Him •' ;who hath called them out of darkness into " His... | |
 | 1810 - 612 strani
...second illustration, he considers the terms "elect", "called", "saints", and the phrases " in Christ" " a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people," as used only to distinguish the professors of Christianity from the rest of mankind, particularly from... | |
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