...the other hand, he intimates, that where these tokens are wanting, there is no church. Eph. ii. 12. at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. As to what are...

...the other hand, he intimates, that where these tokens are wanting, there is no church. Eph. ii. 12. 'at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.' As to what are...

...partaken of the root and fatuta if the oltvetree; Or, for them. »See on Matt. iii. ver. 10. clause 4. ь Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumdsionby that which U called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; That at that time...

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...might " bring them into the glorious liberty of the Children of God." In their natural state, " they were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus, they who were sometimes afar off are made nigh by thebloodof Christ 1 ." " Now, therefore, they are...

...discovered in ignorance, as we learn from Paul, describing the natural condition of the Ephesians, " That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world " (Eph. ii. 12). It is not affirmed they were without the natural knowledge...

...Now all mankind may be cast into two ranks or orders. For, •first, there are those who are yet ' without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth...strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world ;'d such we mean as are either negatively orprivatively infidels, or unbelievers...

...clearly to the matter under debate. 3. The next place of the same import is, Eph. ii. 12 — 16. ' That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenant of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ...

...of whem they have not heard ? and how shall they hear without a preacher?" — Romans x. 13, 14. " Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called uncircumcieion by that which is called circumcision in the flesh made with hands; that at that time...

...putrifying sores." A very sad state to be in ; but every child of God knows it to be a truth : afso, "being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise ; " crying, " Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy name." This is man's state by nature...