...other passages. Thus the same apostle, speaking of the conversion of the Thessalonians, observes : " How ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven :" f and again, in his prayer, for the same people, in his Second Epistle : " And the Lord direct...

...Mr. Tyeriuau took the timing service; and his discourse, which was grounded on 1 Tliess. i. 9, 10, " Ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, and to wait for his Son from heaven," was such a display of cogent reasoning, and masterly eloquence, as could not fail to produce...

...believers of Christ at Thessalonica, who, through the mighty power by which the gospel was sent unto them, turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God. And to wait for his Son from heaven, even Jesus which delivered us from the wrath to come. With respect to the words before us,...

...since Tillotson thus wrote ! Without a revival of miracles, " infidel nations " fare been brought " to serve the living and true God, and to wait for His Son from heaven." This triumph has adorned such missions as are peculiar to the Gospel. " Out of weakness "...

...graft them in again if they abide not in unbelief.' The same grace which caused us Gentiles to turn ' to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and wait for his Son from heaven ;' can soften the heart of a Jew, and cause him ' to look to him whom...

...discrepancy is found in the ninth verse of the first chapter of the epistle : " For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you,...ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God." This text contains an assertion, that, by means of St. Paul's ministry at Thessalonica,...

...discrepancy is found in the ninth verse of the first chapter of the epistle: " For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to Godfrom Idols to serve the living and true God." This text contains an assertion, that, by means of...

...thing concerning it. 9 For they themselves declare of us, what kind of entering in among you we had, and how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God ; 10 and to look for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, who deliveretl!...

...away. Another seeming discrepancy is found in the ninth verse of the first chapter of the epistle : " For they themselves show of us what manner of entering...ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God." This text contains an assertion, that, hy means of St. Paul's ministry at Thessalonica,...

...faith to God-ward is spread abroad ; so that we need not to speak any thing. 9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you,...turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God ; 10 And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which...