...certain individuals, but the end for which the elect are forechosen, viz. " everlasting salvation." 5th, 1 Pet. i. 2. " Elect according to the foreknowledge...sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ." The persons here designated the elect, were " the strangers...

...not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing ; hut that it should he holy and without blemish" ( 1 Pet. i. 2). " Elect according to the foreknowledge...through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ" (Rom. viii. 29). " For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate...

...feelings of discontent, and was covetous of this world's goods, forgetting that God hath ' chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which He hath promised to them that love Him ;' forgetting that the devil especially tempts us by the love of this world to fall down and worship...

...partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts ? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith,...kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him 1 But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment-seats?...

...partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts ? Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith,...kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ? But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment-seats...

...come unto me : for of such is the kingdom of heaven. JAMES, ii. 5 : Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith,...kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ? d ISA. Ixi. 1,3: The LORD hath anointed me — to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give them...

...is such magnanimity i " How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God. Hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith,...kingdom, which he hath promised to them that love him?" Do we aspire after rank and office ? Well may our ambition be chilled, when we remember the too common...

...unsearchable counsel of his own will, whereby he extendeth or withholdeth mercy as he pleaseth, for the VI. d 1 Pet. i. 2. Elect according to the fore-knowledge...through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Eph. i. 4, 5. According aa he hath chosen as in him, before...

...the fear of the Lord, than great treasure and trouble therewith*1. , Hath not God chosen tJie poor of this world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him ' ? But then they must be put in mind often to pray to God, to deliver them from the sins to which...

...pooc, their language is — " To the poor the gospel is preached — Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, rich in faith,...kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him." Let the pious poor, and the afflicted, therefore, comfort themselves in their God. Let them remember...