 | Missions - 1838 - 716 pages
...claims of love and service has Christ upon us, as the end and design of redeeming us from all iniquity, that he might " purify to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works." And these good works serve to justify our faith before the world ; they adorn the doctrine... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1816 - 370 pages
...continually in grace, and daily be made more conformable to the image of Him "who gave himself for us, that he might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." So shall we all meet at last before the throne of grace, whatever partial and temporary separations... | |
 | Future punishment - 1817 - 334 pages
...promised, and Christ came, that He might gather some out of every kingdom, tongue, people, and nation ; that He might purify to Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works ; that the hope and promise of immortality might operate on all to whom it reaches, to preserve... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 362 pages
...continually in grace, and daily be made more conformable to the image of Him " who gave himself for us, that he might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." So shall we all meet at last before the throne of grace, whatever partial and temporary separations... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1820 - 496 pages
...continually in grace, and daily be made more conformable to the image of Him " who gave himself for us, that he might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works." So shall we all meet at last before the throne of grace, whatever partial and temporary separations... | |
 | James Inglis - Presbyterian Church - 1820 - 406 pages
...by those of his own household. The end for which Christ offered himself upon the cross, which was, that he might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works, was defeated. Their own bodies, which Christ had consecrated by his spirit, as so many temples... | |
 | Thomas Erskine - Apologetics - 1823 - 226 pages
...the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." But if the virtue and sufficiency of the atonement be thus universal, why are not the benefits...atonement, was the most proper channel through which this divine light might enter the soul of man. It is this light alone which can chase away the shades... | |
 | John Rogers Pitman - 1828 - 620 pages
...works to serve the living God :' [Heb. ix. 1-t.] the end why our Lord gave himself for us, being, ' that he might purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.' If this great end be attained; if (according to the language of St. John) ' we walk in the... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Theology - 1830 - 620 pages
...ii. 10. v. 10. 25. 2 Tim. iii. 17. Tit. ii. 7. iii. 8. 14. ii. 14. "He redeemed us from all iniquity, that he might purify to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works." 1 Pet. ii. 12. Heb. x. 24. " Let us consider one another, to provoke unto love, and to good... | |
 | Richard Baxter - Christian life - 1831 - 638 pages
...ii. 10. v. 10.25. 2 Tim. iii. 17. Tit. ii. 7. iii. 8. 14. ii. 14. " He redeemed us from all iniquity, that he might purify to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works." 1 Pet. ii. 12. Heb. x. 24. " Let us consider one another, to VOL. I. 57 provoke unto love,... | |
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Christ gave himself for us, not only to redeem us from the punishment due to iniquity, but also that he might purify to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. The subjects of his kingdom were to be those in whose hearts the truth dwelt, the... 
