 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 pages
...With these internal principles and affections, they show forth by their daily walk and conversation, the praises of him who hath called them out of darkness into marvellous light. Thus they avoid many troubles which those endure, whose spirits are violent, and... | |
 | Gathercoal Rabshakeh - 1835 - 334 pages
...generation— a royal priesthood—an holy nation—a peculiar people—that they might show forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light."—1 Pet. ii. Archbishop Leighton, the author of the celebrated commentary on Peter's first... | |
 | Henry Addington Simcoe - 1835 - 306 pages
...holy God, each member of which is a royal priest, a peculiar and holy person, chosen to shew forth the praises of him " who hath called them out of darkness into marvellous light." JML CHRIST'S WILL. . • Continued from page 14. BUT hark ! let me read again in... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1836 - 264 pages
...chosen generation ; a royal priesthood ; a holy nation ; a peculiar people, that they may show forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light ;" having " obeyed the truth through the Spirit," they are born of God thereby, " not of corruptible... | |
 | Charles Girdlestone - 1836 - 398 pages
...are converted, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, that they should shew forth the praises of Him, who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light : which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy,... | |
 | John Mockett Cramp - 1871 - 540 pages
...13), and live in all things answerable to their professed intentions and desires, even to the honour of Him who hath called them out of darkness into His marvellous light." * Thomas Grantham, a celebrated minister in that connexion, thus explains it : — " That as God has... | |
 | Marcus Rainsford - 1871 - 326 pages
...families, in the church of God, and in the world, when they ought to be light-bearers witnessing for him, " who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light." It is true God will, for Christ's sake, save those who put their trust in hun ; but how many calling... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Hayman - 1872 - 310 pages
...existence. It is their wish so to walk as to please God. It is their prayerful intention to show forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness into His marvellous light. If the child of dust inquire, "In what way he may glorify God ? " let him turn to the law and to the... | |
 | William Ives Budington - 1873 - 104 pages
...chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, that they should show forth the praises of him who hath called them out of darkness into his marvellous light." To obscure this truth is to darken the Gospel ; to lose it out « Note III., p. 47. of mind and out... | |
 | rev. s. h. langston - 1873 - 266 pages
...Believers are the Lord's "beauty," —"the beauty of holiness,"—adorning the gospel; " shewing forth the praises of Him who hath called them out of darkness, into His marvellous light." The next thing we read of is, that this people shall be willing,—" made willing,"—not by constraint,... | |
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A chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people, that are to show forth the praises of him, who hath called them out of darkness, into his marvellous light. 
