...favourites of his grace, so he delights to acknowledge them to be his peculiar ones. He says of them, " This people have I formed " for myself, they shall shew forth my " praise." He opens his whole soul unto them, " Thou wast precious in my " sight;, and I have loved thee." Which...

...way only can he answer the great and important ends of his new birth. Of all believers God says, " This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise." " They are all trees of righteousness, the planting of my hand: that I may be glorified." They are...

...the darkness of error and sin into his wonderful light." These words declare the manner how we are sanctified, and what our office is after we are sanctified...Prophets and Apostles do use many times this word, " annunriore," for " laudare" and " gratias agere." So doth Paul (iCor. xi.), Mortem Domini annunciabit'u,...

...our interest in him, and fills both heart and mouth with a thousand thanks, blessings, and praises, " This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise." O could we continue in this mount without the company of Moses and Elias! This would be heaven on earth-...

...because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen. This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise." Better blessings are here promised, blessings more deserving devout attention and regard, than those,...

...And it is true God has a peculiar people, of whom he may say, of whom he hath said, and does say, " This people have I formed for myself: they shall shew forth my praise." But Timothy's Christian is one of his own forming. A man with a dark lantern on his head, and a new...

...feels his fears cast out and glorious liberty brought in; this is the completing; and crowning work; " This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise." At all these gates Wisdom cries; at the gate of life, she says, " Strive to enter in at the strait...

...created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them." " This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise." Judah signifies praise God. " And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she said, Now will I praise...

...the masterpiece of divine workmanship, and from such the King of kings receives his greatest revenue; ''This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise." They shall celebrate the illustrious perfections of his nature, his counsels of old, which are faithfulness...

...seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring." Here is the promise of sanctification by the Holy Ghost. "This people have I formed for myself, they shall shew forth my praise;" " I will direct their work in truth;" " I will give them one heart and one way;'' " I will keep them;"...