 | Hervey Wilbur - Bible - 1814 - 184 pages
...loveth not, knoweth not God i for GOD is love. 1 John 4. 8. His love to his people is sovereign,— for the children being not yet born, neither having...might stand, not of works but of him that calleth i It was said unto,her, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1862 - 606 pages
...Romans, where it is said of Jacob and Esau, " for the children being not yet born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to...of works but of Him that calleth ; it was said unto Rebecca, The elder shall serve the younger." This did not mean the election of Jacob to eternal life,... | |
 | Thomas Ridgley - Presbyterianism - 1814 - 558 pages
...text, which is generally insisted on, as a very plain proof of this doctrine, in Rom. ix. 11, 12, 13. The children being not yet born, neither having done...purpose of God according to election, might stand; not of-works, but of him that calleth: It -was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger ; as it... | |
 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - Natural theology - 1815 - 570 pages
...intention to remove all ambiguity from this subject. Suffer me to quote only the eleventh verse : " The children, being not yet born, neither having done...election, might stand, not of works, but of him that callelh, it was said, the greater shall serve the younger ; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but... | |
 | Nathan Bangs - Theology, Doctrinal - 1815 - 336 pages
...And not only this ; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, verse 10. (For the children being not yet born, neither having...God according to election might stand, not of works" [seeing this was impossible while Jacob was yet unborn] "but of him that calleth) verse 11. It was... | |
 | Samuel Stanhope Smith - Presbyterian Church - 1816 - 560 pages
...intention to remove all ambiguity from this subject. Buffer me to quote only the eleventh verse : " The children, being not yet born, neither having done...not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said, the greater shall serve the younger ; as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have 1 hated."... | |
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 pages
...from the hope of the Gospel (f)." " When Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our Father Isaac ; (for the children being not yet born, neither having...was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger : As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated (g):" the purpose of (e) Col. c. 3. v.... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1817 - 610 pages
...apostle Paul, when illustrating this subject by fact, in the case of Jacob and Esau, saith, ••tin- children being not yet born, neither having done any...works, but of him that calleth, it was said unto her, (ie Rebecca,) the elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix, ii, 12. These passages, as well as many... | |
 | Future punishment - 1817 - 334 pages
...counted for the seed." Yet all live unto Him, then the children of the flesh must cease to live. 11. " For the children being not yet born, neither having...might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth. 12. It was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger : 13. As it ia written, Jacob have I loved,... | |
 | Seth Williston - God - 1817 - 276 pages
...grace to all the works of men. As a specimen of such passages, take the following: Horn. ix. 11. " For the children being not yet born ; neither having...purpose of God according to election might stand, nnt af'viorii, hut of him that cailtth:" v. 16, " So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him... | |
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Isaac; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth): it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written,... 
