 | Samuel Eyles Pierce - 1835 - 606 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." chap. i. 17, 18. And Peter blesses God for it, as the first act of God, which he puts forth within... | |
 | Episcopal Church - 1835 - 406 pages
...Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat hens of the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his crea tures. Wherefore my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wraili... | |
 | Seth Williston - 1836 - 664 pages
...account for it any more consistently than by saying, with the apostle, " Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures ? " There seems to be much in the scriptures to support the doctrine of distinguishing grace, dispensed... | |
 | Jeremy TAYLOR (Bishop of Down and Connor, and of Dromore.) - 1836 - 380 pages
...bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled2. 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 lay apart all filthiness, and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the ingrafted... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - 1836 - 180 pages
...1'ghts, with whom there 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 Quinton Stow - 1836 - 328 pages
...scriptures sometimes present these requisites upon which we have dwelt. " 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 laying aside all malice and air guile, and hypocrisies and envies and evil speakings,... | |
 | Thomas White - 1836 - 170 pages
...gift, and every perfect gift, cometh down from the Father of lights, who of his own will begets us anew by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures — an earnest of that glorious harvest which will be reaped after the... | |
 | Ralph Wardlaw - 1836 - 414 pages
...to the explicit testimonies of inspired apostles : — James i. 18, " Of his own will begat h« us, by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures : " — 1 Pet. i. 23, " Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but... | |
 | Reginald Heber (bp. of Calcutta.) - 1837 - 396 pages
...thankful confidence. " Of His own will," St. James continues, this great and good God " begat us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of His creatures." Here it is to be first observed, that, as the act of becoming a Christian by baptism and by the Holy... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1837 - 426 pages
...relation in which we stand to God : " of his own will," says he, (ch. i. 18 — 21.) "begat He its 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... | |
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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... 
