 | Thom Scott - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...1 See John i. 12, 13. " gift is from above, and comcth down from the " Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, " neither shadow of turning. Of...that we " should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures."1 " Of his own will he begat us." 2 Let the reader compare this with the words of the evangelist... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...St. James, speaking of himself, and of the churches to whom he wrote, says, ' Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures,' James i. 18. St. Peter writes to the churches in Pontus, &c. ' Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...Christians may all say of the Father of lights, with the Apostle James; "• Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures." The truly pious are therefore the children of God, in a higher and more endearing sense than others... | |
 | George Stanley Faber - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 300
...thatwatereth : but God, thatgiveth the increase^. Of his own will, says James respecting God, begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruit of his creatures || . Blessed, says Peter, be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;... | |
 | Charles Drelincourt - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 654
...inclined him to reform our beings, and to re-engrave in our hearts his divine image. Of his own will begat he us, with the word of Truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures, James i. 18. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 462
...Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures. 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow... | |
 | 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...Christians may all say of the Father of lights, with the Apostle James; "• Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind <lf first fruits of his creatures." The truly pious are therefore the children of God, in a higher... | |
 | Samuel Stennett - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...through Jesus Christ our Saviour c. And the apostle James assures us, that God of his own will begat us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first-fruits of his creatures d. But these are only a few among many other passages of the same import.... | |
 | William Carpenter - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of...with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures, Jam. ii. 1(5 —18. ь See on John vi. ver. 45. clause 1. c See on Rom.... | |
 | 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...St. James (i. 18), speaking of the first converts in the apostolic age, says, " Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures;" ie of those who should at any period to the end of the world be created anew in Christ Jesus. In like... | |
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Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his... 
