 | B. A. S., Barbara Allan Simon - 1832 - 234 pages
...doctrine we might be able to exhort and convince the gainsayers. He says, " Of his own will he begat us by the Word of Truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures." We are enjoined to lay aside all self-devised wandering of intellect,... | |
 | David Thom - 1833 - 454 pages
...inspired writers, will, I presume, be enough to substantiate my position. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be A KIND OF FIRST FRUITS OF HIS CREATURES. James i. 18. These, says the author of the Book of Revelation, speaking of the persons whom he had... | |
 | Thomas Griffith - 1834 - 348 pages
...whither it goeth; so is every one that is born of the Spirit." * " Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures." t " We have received, not the spirit of the world but the spirit which is of God, that we might know... | |
 | Hugh Gaston - 1834 - 384 pages
...incorruptible, by the word of God, which livcth and abideth for ever. James i. 8. Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruita of his creatures. 2 Pet i. 3. God hath begotten us to a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus... | |
 | Thomas Church Brownell - 1834 - 538 pages
...hath begotten us iy the word of truth ;" ie hath converted us Jews to Christianity through he Gospel truth, " that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures," . e. the first Christian converts. The apostle is not here speaking of re. generation, which in the... | |
 | Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...of lights, with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning. Of his own will, he begot us by 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 the... | |
 | Ezra Stiles Ely, Abel Charles Thomas - 1835 - 300 pages
...same general truth is taught in James i. 18: "Of Ws own will begat he us [the primitive disciples] by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of FIRST FRUITS of his [rational] creatures." I say rational, because the character of the harvest, the lump, is indicated... | |
 | 1835 - 604 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... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1835 - 636 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 the... | |
 | John Fry - 1835 - 508 pages
...designating the common characteristic of the faithful, observes : " of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures." * The same elect church, and holy fellowship of saints, I believe to be again designated in the fifteenth... | |
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father 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... 
