 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood...  The Works of President Edwards ... - Page 416by Jonathan Edwards - 1803Full view - About this book
 | sir George Pretyman Tomline (bart, bp. of Winchester.) - 1817 - 628 pages
...circumstanced, according as their will may lead them to vice or to virtue." — Vol. i . p. 504. JKHOME. " ' WHEN it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's...reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen (x) : ' not only in this passage, but in his epistle to the Romans, Paul writes, that he was... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1817 - 616 pages
...Christ in conversion, as of what betore was hidden and unseen; Gal. i. 15, 16. " But when it pieased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me." — The scripture also speaks plainly of such a knowledge of the word of God, as has been described... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 448 pages
...they might all be brought to say, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? — But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." Is it necessary to name a fourth particular instance,... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Theology, Doctrinal - 1818 - 632 pages
...man, neither twi* / fanght it. 6•d by the revelation of Jesus Christ. VOL. II. S) It pleased God to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, or Gentiles. Gal. i. II,I2, I5, I6. Once more, If any man think himself to be spiritual, (that... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Sermons, American - 1818 - 432 pages
...they might all be brought to say, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? — But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his )?race, to reveal his son in me, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." Is it necessary... | |
 | Theology, Doctrinal - 1819 - 488 pages
...many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers ; but when it pleased God, who separated me from my...reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood*. I was not disobedient unto the heavenly... | |
 | 1839 - 788 pages
...apart ; for that the Father did so, he himself declares in his Epistle to the Galatians (i. 15, 16). " It pleased God, who separated me from my mother's...reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen ;" and that, again, the onlybegotten Son did this likewise, is evident where the apostle tells... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - Sermons, American - 1819 - 616 pages
...be an Apostle, separated unto the Gospel of God ; that is, to the Preaching of the Gospel. Again ? But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...womb, and called me by his grace to reveal his Son wits me, iknt I might preach him among the Heathen. Preaching is also commanded by St. Paul to the... | |
 | Alexander Shanks - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 442 pages
...persecuted the Church "of God and wasted it. — But when it pleased God, who "separated me from the womb, and called me by his "grace, to reveal his Son in me. that I might preach "him among the Heathen."— -To the Corinthians, he gives this account of his illumination, "God, who com"manded the... | |
 | Jonathan Edwards - Emotions - 1821 - 472 pages
...in himself." Gal. i. 14, 15, 16, " Being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." If it be so, that that is a spiritual conviction... | |
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