| Thomas Stratten - 1830 - 338 pages
...service, can be stronger than that which is repeatedly addressed to the whole people. " For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord thy God...himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth." * Their holiness as a people, however, was not inherent nor self-sustained, nor at any time... | |
| Jonathan Edwards - 1830 - 618 pages
...nation were a small, inconsiderable people in comparison with many other people. Deuteronomy vii. 7. "The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose...any people; for ye were the fewest of all people." So neither was it for their righteousness ; for they had no more of that, than other people. Deuteronomy... | |
| British preacher - 1831 - 756 pages
...communicated ? The divine word, here also, answers the question. Moses said, (Deut. vii. 6 — 8.) " For thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God : the...fewest of all people : but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you... | |
| Thomas Stratten - 1831 - 304 pages
...service, can be stronger than that which is repeatedly addressed to the whole people. " For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God : the Lord thy God...himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth."* Their holiness as a people, however, was not inherent nor self-sustained, nor at any time... | |
| 1831 - 930 pages
...their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire. 6 H For thou ai-t o tremble, that did shake kingdoms : 17 That made...wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof: that opened arc upon the face of the earth. 7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 684 pages
...glorym."] m 2 Cor. iv. 17, 18. CXCVI. A RIGHT IMPROVEMENT OF ELECTING LOVE. Dcut. vii. 6 — 10. T/iou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God: the Lord...fewest of all people) but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you... | |
| Charles Simeon - 1832 - 540 pages
...said to Israel in the wilderness, may be said to God's Israel to the very end of time : " Thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God : the Lord thy God...himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earthd." Nor, in one instance more than another, can any reason for this choice be assigned, but simply... | |
| Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you. />, . iv. 27. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose...any people (for ye were the fewest of all people). I>> . vii. 7. Remember his marvellous works that he hath done, his wonden and the judgments of his... | |
| Edward Dorr Griffin - 1833 - 230 pages
...with Abraham 1 " The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all the people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord...fewest of all people ;) but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers." So it is with those who were... | |
| David Thom - 1833 - 516 pages
...nations of the earth. So far from this, many other nations, in a variety of respects, surpassed them. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose...fewest of all people), but because the Lord loved you, and because He ivould keep the oath tvldch he had sworn vnto your Fathers, hath the Lord brought you... | |
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