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 written,... Discourses on Religious Subjects - Page 232by Job Swift - 1805 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jesus Christ, John Henderson Thomson - Christian martyrs - 1871 - 720 pages
...children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God acccording to election might stand, not of works, but of Him that calleth. For he saith to Moses [see Exod. xxxiii. 19], I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy ; and I will... | |
| John Gill - Theology, Doctrinal - 1796 - 570 pages
...being yet Iwn, neither having done any good or evil ; thai the purpose of God, according to tlectiin, might stand; not of works, but of him that calleth; it was said unto her, to Rcbekah, the mother uf them, whilst they were in her womb, the elder ¡hall ¡true the younger ;... | |
| 1801 - 504 pages
...their birth. " For the children being net yet born, neither having done good or evil that the purpofe according to election might Stand* not of works, but of him that calleth." So chap. xi. it is faid, that election is of grace- " And if by grace, then it is no more of works."... | |
| William Huntington - Arminianism - 1802 - 522 pages
...which put God either upon choosing the elect, or rejecting the reprobate. Mark the llth verse: " That the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth.'' With this agrees Ephes. ii. 8, y ; " For by grace arc ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves... | |
| 1802 - 374 pages
...father Isaac, 1 1 (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,) 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved,... | |
| John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 454 pages
...Ver. 11 — 13, " 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 thatcalleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger : as it is written, Jacob have... | |
| John Smalley - Congregational churches - 1803 - 448 pages
...and Jacob, he takes notice of a declared preference given to the younger, before their birth ; tfiat the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of •works. But if the foreknowledge of men's good works had been the ground of it, why should it be called an election... | |
| Johann Caspar Lavater - Facial expression - 1804 - 422 pages
...of the Romans. " Tor the children, being not yet born, neither having done an}' good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand,...said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then, Is there unrighteousness... | |
| 1804 - 476 pages
...our father Isaac, 11 (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,) 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved,... | |
| Thomas Vincent - Westminster Assembly - 1806 - 308 pages
...pleased, Rom. ix. 11, 13, 18. The children being not yet born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand,...not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. For lie hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom... | |
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