 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 616 pages
...for them : I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; tor they are thine," &c. 1 Thess. v. 9. " For God hath not appointed us to...God forbid. So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that shewcth mercy, &c. Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - 1817 - 544 pages
...overtake you as a thief; ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day." Ver. 9 — 11. " For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ; who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should Jive together with him. Wherefore comfort... | |
 | 1825 - 512 pages
...meetings at the Methodist church. At one of these meetings he heard brother T. preach from Rom. ix, 16. " So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." Under this discourse he received such a deepening of his conviction, that he thought he must begin... | |
 | Samuel Phelps - 1818 - 634 pages
...he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things ? If God be for us, who can be against us? So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy; therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. Thou wilt then say... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1818 - 538 pages
...NIGHT nor of DARK" NESS. Therefore let us not SLEEP, as do others ; " but let us watch and be sober. For God hath not " appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by " our Lord Jesus Christ; who died for us, that, " whether we WAKE or SLEEP, \ve should live toge" ther with him f." (3.) This... | |
 | William Bengo'. Collyer - 1819 - 82 pages
...and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.' It stimulates — ' For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep,' whether we live or die, ' we should live together... | |
 | 1829 - 828 pages
...as the marvellous means, through which our sins are remitted, and our reconciliation purchased ; " for God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for our sins." (1 Thess. v. 9, 10.) But there are other passages of the inspired volume, which... | |
 | Alfred Cecil Buckland - 1819 - 226 pages
...day be sober, putting on the breast-plate of truth and love, and for an helmet the hope of salvation. For God hath not appointed us to wrath; but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ ; who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him."* * 1 Thess. T.... | |
 | Andrew Fuller - 1820 - 440 pages
...have mercy on whom I will have mercy ; and I will have comfiassion on whom I will have comfiassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.* The above passages must be allowed to speak only of a fiart of mankind. This part of mankind must be... | |
 | Leonard Woods - 1820 - 176 pages
...divine administration. This principle is brought into view, v. 16, as an inference from what preceded. " So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy." It is deduced, as a general principle, from what God said respecting the offending Israelites in a... | |
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For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. 
