...have called the master Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household ? Gal. iv. 29. but as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted...that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. Heb. xi. 36, &c. others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings — .. Hence we are enjoined to...

...an Ishmael and an Isaac, an Esau and a Jacob, a Saul and a David, cannot live together in peace ; " But as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted...that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now c." Saul's interest makethhim think it just to persecute David ; and religiously he Messeth those that...

...one can believe to have been exercised in the composition of these epistles. No. V. Chap. iv. 29. " But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted...that was born after the spirit, even so it is now." Chap. v. 11. "And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution ? Then...

...shall be called traitors, and cashiered that they hinder not the treason which he intendeth. And " as then he that was born after the flesh, persecuted...him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is falsehoods that will appear to any free spirit pure contradictions and impossibilities; and that with...

...extend. Yet again, we read in the history, that Ishmael mocked Isaac ; or in the words of the Apostle, " he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now." False teachers were undermining the doctrines, and perverting the faith of the Gospel, by endeavouring...

...an husband. 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise. 29 But as then he {hat was born after the flesh, persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless, what saith the Scripture ? Cast out the bond-woman and her son ; for the son of the...

...which is in their teeth, will show that hatred in various instances. As of old, " lie that was boru after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now; " the same cause still producing the same effect. The evil which yet remains in the her;rr, will then...

...St. Paul sets forth succinctly the relation of these two natures, when (in 4th Ga/atians) he says, "he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spitit." "So also is it now," he reminds us. The lower sensual "man" in us brings the divine soul to...

...preaching of the gospel and were proclaimed to be the spiritual seed, they who, like Ishmael, were simply "born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit," like Isaac. Everywhere the Jews set themselves to resist the preaching of the gospel, attempting to...

...the children of the desolate than of her which hath the husband. Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was bom after the Spirit, even so it is now. Howbeit what saith the Scripture? Cast out the handmaid and...