...addresses his converts as — " called out of darkness into God's " marvellous light: which in time past were not a " people, but are now the people of God:...not obtained mercy, but now have obtained " mercy." 5 Hear also the testimony of the beloved Disciple, which should make us pause before we attempt to...

...praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light : 10 Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God :...had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war...

...at the house of God, I Pet. iv. 17. 2. Ye are a chosen [choice] generation, &c. which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God :...had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy, [by believing,] 1 Pet. ii. 9, 10. 2. Therefore the childrenjof Israel could not stand before their...

...praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light : which, in time past, were not a people, but are now the people of God:...not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." Not merely on the ground of its separation from the world, its baptismal engagements, and professed...

...his high and holy place, will proclaim to those " who in time past were not a people, but are become the people of God; which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy:" " Tiiere is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond, nor...

...praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light. — Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God ;...not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." God ' r"j,.2- 9' spake of His people of old in like manner; and instead of any further reading, at...

...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,...had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. (See 1 Pet. 2. 9, 10.) Oh that the mercy we have ourselves obtained may induce us to be merciful to...

...had fallen away by our sins. We shall be in some degree numbered among those, " which in time past were not " a people, but are now the people of God...not obtained mercy, but now "have obtained mercy." As such, He will give us rest. He will give us rest in this world, by admitting us to a participation...

...PRAISES OF HIM, WHO hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light r which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God :...not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy." f To these plain and sufficient testimonies may be appropriately added the oft repeated phrase of being...

...hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous Light, which sometime were ' not a people,' but now the people of God ;* which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.' This last expression is with reference to the symbolic name of a former child Lo-ruhamah — (for I...