 | John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...the spirit of their minds. The persons spoken of in our text, had been before described as being, " Elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience." It is supposed by the apostle that thcv had been effectual Iv called to holiness and virtue ; or, as... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1803 - 572 pages
...good determination of the will, and every good improvement of assistance, is so. 1 Pet. i. 2... 5. " Elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, •who, according to his abundant mercy, hath... | |
 | Edward Williams - Clergy - 1810 - 346 pages
...sovereign virtue, mix some other with it, to prevent the fatal consequences. So we are said to be " elect, according to the foreknowledge of God, through...sanctification of the Spirit •unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood vf Jesus."§ Again we are told, that " by grace we are saved through faith, the gift of... | |
 | Joseph Lathrop - Bible - 1810 - 600 pages
...the truth, whereimto he hath also called you by our gospel." The Apostle Peter calls Christians, " Elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the spirit." Election, in these passages, cannot be understood merely of an appointment to external privileges,... | |
 | John Wesley - Methodism - 1812 - 462 pages
...world ; " elect" (saith St. Paul) " through belief of the truth :" or (as St. Peter expresses it) " elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit." t' XIX. This election I as firmly believe, as I believe the Scripture to be of God. But unconditional... | |
 | Arminianism - 1817 - 370 pages
...the world ; elect (saith St. Paul) through belief of the troth :' or (as St. Peter expresses it) ' elect, according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit.' XIX. This election I as firmly believe, aa I believe the scripture to be of God. But unconditional... | |
 | Edward Williams - Preaching - 1820 - 366 pages
...sovereign virtue, mix some other with it, to prevent the fatal consequences. So we are said to be " elect, according to the foreknowledge of God, through...sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus §." Again, we are told, that " by grace we are saved through faith, the gift... | |
 | William Penn, George Whitehead - Society of Friends - 1824 - 574 pages
...blood of the covenant, &e.M Exod. xxiv. 7, 8. To which tjpe answereth what the apostle Peter saith, " Elect according to the fore-knowledge of God, through...sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus." 1 Pet. i. 2. And, " he hath washed us from our sins in his own blood." This... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 500 pages
...word of God, in which the cause and the effect, are so solemnly united with each other; that " we are elect according to the foreknowledge of God through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience ;' that " we are saved and called with an holy calling." What can be more explicit than St. Paul's... | |
 | Rowland Hill - Christian life - 1825 - 316 pages
...word of God, in which the cause and the effect, are solemnly united with each other ; that " we are elect according to the foreknowledge of God through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience ;" that "we are saved and called with an holy calling." What can be more explicit than St Paul's declaration,... | |
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Then were they in fact chosen and taken out of the world ; " elect" (saith St. Paul) " through belief of the truth :" or (as St. Peter expresses it) " elect according to the foreknowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit. 
