 | Joseph Besse - Quakers - 1732 - 466 pages
...the Scripture ; which Opinion, we think is not warranted by the Texts he cites -, viz. James i. 21. Of his own Will begat he us by the Word of "Truth, which we take to be the fame Word fpoken of in the next Text he quotes, viz. i Pet. i. 23.' Being born... | |
 | James Hervey - Justification - 1755 - 452 pages
...fprings Juftification : Being juflijied freely by his Grace £. This is the Origin of Regeneration : Of his own Will begat He Us. by the Word of Truth ((,. — r The Confummation of Blifs flows from the lame alUfupplying Source : The Gift of GQD is eternal... | |
 | John Maclaurin - Bible - 1773 - 604 pages
...means, or the inftrument. Thus, James i.i8. we have a remarkably clear evidence to this purpofe : " Of his " own will begat he us by the word of truth, that ** we might be a kind of firft-fruits of his creatures." Here we fee it is God that begets us again, but... | |
 | Samuel Ecking - Faith - 1784 - 210 pages
...fins, Col. ii. 12. This cannot intend any a6t of the human mind, under any influence whatever, for, of his own will begat he us by the word of truth. Faith in this fenfe comes by hearing the word of God. But this fhows how faith comes to us; not how... | |
 | Missions - 1798 - 612 pages
...John, " were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the rlefh, nor of the will of man, but of God: of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, which liveth and abideth for ever." Should not then all who pretend to be fubje&s of this fpiritual... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - Sermons - 1795 - 518 pages
...furthered by our good. Do you. fee it is. nothing but free, free and fovereign grace that' hath done it? " Of his own will begat he us, by the word of truth." If you be a child of promife, and not a defcendent of the bond-wo.man, the law, then you .have ieen... | |
 | Ebenezer Erskine - Sermons - 1798 - 614 pages
...of life, and may well be called the word of life -, life in the beginning of it in regeneration j " Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth." The life of juftification ; we arc juftified in believing and receiving of Chrilt our righteoufnefs,... | |
 | John Flavel - 1799 - 684 pages
...it. " The wind blows where it iift" eth, fo is every one that is born of the Spirit," John iii. 8. " Of " his own will begat he us by the word of truth." Ordinances are as the pool of Betheida, which had his healing virtue only when the angel moved the... | |
 | George Bull (bp. of St. David's.) - 1801 - 330 pages
...only unmixed with fhade. The divine writer concludes his elegant difcourfe with thefe words :— *c Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth," v. 18 ; that is, our being faithful and pious does not arife from any fatal necefllty, but from the... | |
 | Niel Douglas - Deism - 1802 - 302 pages
...typ; or figure of the cleft, or the church of the firft- born, as we are taught by the apoftles. " Of his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we mould be a kind of iirft-fruits of hio creatures," James i. 18. Some would reftricl this to the apoitles,... | |
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Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. 
