 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1839 - 568 pages
...benefits toward me ? I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the Lord. 1 Pet. ii. 9. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,...you out of darkness into his marvellous light. (1) 1 John ii. 3, 5. And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.—But whoso keepeth... | |
 | Richard Graves - 1840 - 468 pages
...words " certain men have crept in unawares, ordained to this condemnation,"—and 1 Peter ii. 8. Men who stumble at the word, being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed. The proof of the doctrine of absolute reprobation, derived from these passages, rests entirely on the... | |
 | Ephraim Currier - Resurrection - 1841 - 200 pages
...They are made kings and priests to God out of every nation. Let us compare this with other passages. "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,...; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light." 1st Pet. ii, 9. "And hath made us kings... | |
 | Nathanael Emmons - Sermons - 1842 - 640 pages
...same is made the head of the corner; and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them who stumble at the word, being disobedient, whereunto...appointed. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people." These, and many other passages of scripture, speak... | |
 | Joseph John Gurney - Authority - 1843 - 92 pages
...holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ :" and again ; "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,...out of darkness into his marvellous light :" 1 Pet. 2 : 5, 9. distinct classes of clergy and laity. The setting apart of a tribe, like that of Levi of... | |
 | Charles Stovel - 1843 - 240 pages
...members. By this the church realizes, in the law of her own constitution, the declaration of St. Peter, " But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,...that ye should show " forth the praises of him who hath called you out of " darkness into his marvellous light; who, in time past, " were not a people,... | |
 | John Cunningham - Covenant theology - 1843 - 408 pages
...is made the head of the corner, and a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed." But to the others, in terms certainly implying, that to every privilege and duty of the Covenant they were... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1844 - 428 pages
...forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed. James i. 18, 22—25. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,...called you out of darkness into his marvellous light 1 Peter ii 9. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. But the anointing which... | |
 | London St. Giles, Cripplegate - 1844 - 638 pages
...own self; (Psalm iv. 3;) and to the highest purposes and endowments are they wrought and framed : " But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood,...you out of darkness into his marvellous light." (1 Peter ii. 9.) "And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - Theology - 1844 - 778 pages
...of St. Jude is, in the opinion of many good writers, equivalent to that of 1 St. Peter, ii. 8: They stumble at the word, being disobedient : whereunto also they were appointed. But for that place, it is ingenuously and discreetly exJACKSON, VOL. IX. Z gencral ' pounded by a late... | |
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to those who stumble at the word being disobedient, whereunto also they were appointed. But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness... 
