 | Girolamo Zanchi, Augustus Toplady - 1811 - 312 pages
...appointment flows entirely from his own free and sovereign will. Rom. ix. " The children not yet being born, neither having done any good or evil, (that...not of works, but of him that calleth) it was said, the elder shall serve the younger : as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." The... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 450 pages
...with him," (Rom. ii. 11.) Again from that text, " The children being not yet born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to...but of him that calleth. — It was said unto her," (unto Rebecca,) " the elder shall serve the younger :" you infer that our being predestinated or elect,... | |
 | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 pages
...iii. p. 647.' 1 2 Cor. xii. 7—10. i * ' Because he says, "For the children being not yet born, I " neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose...to election, might stand, not of works, but of him 1 " that callelh ; it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the « " younger : as it is written,... | |
 | Samuel Hopkins - 1811 - 536 pages
...any thing to the charge of God's elect : It is God that justifieth."t " For the children not being yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that...of God, according to election, might stand, not of • Johl) xyii. 1, 2, 9, 10, n, 21. t M»rk w, 20, 22/2T.' » ROBB. viii. 28, 39, 30, 33, works, but... | |
 | Joseph Priestley - 1812 - 108 pages
...? III. I III. OP ELECTION AND REPROBATION. Rom. ix. 11, &c. " For the children being not yet horn, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose...shall we say then ? Is there unrighteousness with God ? God forbid ! For he saith to Moses, I vvill have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have... | |
 | John Murray - 1812 - 444 pages
...decided as to their import. Thus, says the Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans, ix, 11, "For the children being not yet born, neither having done...said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger." Hence it is plain, God does not exhibit himself as partial to the one, as virtuous, or as hating the... | |
 | George Lawson - 1812 - 256 pages
...be holy," not because he foresaw that we would be holy. " Before the children were bornj or had uone good or evil, that the purpose of God, according to...election, might stand, not of works, but of him that calleih, it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger." i.Eph. i. 4. Rom ix. 12, 13. sing... | |
 | Thomas Branagan - 1812 - 370 pages
...son. And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done...good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election mijjht stand, not of works, but him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve... | |
 | John Locke - 1812 - 516 pages
...Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, 11 (For the children being not yet bom, neither having done any good, or -evil, that the purpose of God, according to election, might stand, nut of works, but of him that calleth) PARAPHRASE. 7 prehended in the promise ; Nor are they, who are... | |
 | John Wesley - 1812 - 462 pages
...liVIII. You can ground no solid objection to thin, on St. Paul's words, in the Epistle to the Romans: "It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger : as it is written, Jacob have 1 loved, but Esau have I hated," chap. ix. 12, 13. For it is undeniably plain, that both these scriptures... | |
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Isaac ; (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ;) it was said unto her, " The elder shall serve the younger." As it is... 
