 | Edward Cooper - 1818 - 384 pages
...of incorruptible by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever :" and again by St. James, " of his own will begat He us by the word of truth." Hence, by the same instrument, He produces Faith in the heart. Blessed with His quickening energy,... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1819 - 558 pages
...lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning : Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath ; for... | |
 | William Carus Wilson - 1844 - 638 pages
...rational and voluntary agents. This also accords with what the Bible tells us upon the subject : " Of his own will begat he us, by the word of truth." Is it not a fact, also, that is clearly ascertained from actual experiment, in perfect accordance with... | |
 | Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath ; for... | |
 | Otis Thompson - 1821 - 156 pages
...will not maintain, that God does not work by means in regenerating sinners ; since it is written, " of his own will begat he us, by the word of truth." James i. 18. Supposing, then, a positive divine efficiency be necessary to turn a heart of love and... | |
 | Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 pages
...called you out of darkness into hit marvellous light. James i. 18. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. 1 Thess. i. 5, 6. For our Gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1822 - 444 pages
...of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning: Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath ; for... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1822 - 70 pages
...1—7. Comp. Luke xxii.22. * 1 Pet. ii. 7— 10. '* 1 Thefc. v.9. " Of hit own mill, begat he us with the word of truth .; that " we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures."1 And our Lord himself says, " My sheep hear my voice, and " I know them, and they follow... | |
 | Charles Bradley - 1822 - 340 pages
...the Spirit with it. " The wind blows where it listeth, so is every one that is born of the Spirit," " Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth. Ordinances are as the pool of Bethesda, which had its healing virtue only when the angel moved the... | |
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Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first• fruits of his creatures. 
