 | Dan Foster - 1803 - 326 pages
...10—14. 'J And not only this; but when Re* faecca alfo had conceived by one, even by our father Ifaac, (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpofe of God according to election might fland, not of works, but of him that calletfv.) It was laid... | |
 | John Smalley - 1803 - 448 pages
...and Jacob, he takes notice of a declared preference given to the younger, before their birth ; tfiat the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of •works. But if the foreknowledge of men's good works had been the ground of it, why should it be called an election... | |
 | Johann Caspar Lavater - 1804 - 422 pages
...passage from the ninth of the Romans. " Tor the children, being not yet born, neither having done an}' good or evil, that the purpose of God according to...written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then, Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. For he saith to Moses, I will... | |
 | 1804 - 476 pages
...son. 10 And not only this ; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, 11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having...might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,) 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. 13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved,... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1804 - 534 pages
...pofterities, the argument of the Apoftle furnifbes a proof. " For the children," ESAU and JACOB, fays he, " being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpofe of GOD, according to election, might ftand, not of Works, but of him that calletl! ; it was... | |
 | Job Swift - 1805 - 314 pages
...others.' We find in Scripture, such expressions as these, " many are called, but few chosen." Again, "that the purpose of God according to election might stand,...said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger, &c." " The election obtained it, the rest were blinded. He hath mercy on whom he will have mercj'."... | |
 | Samuel Barnard - 1806 - 352 pages
...son. " And not only this, but when Rebecca had also " conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; " (For the children being not yet born, neither " having...election might stand, not " of works, but of him that cullcth). It lias said " unto her,. TMe- elder iha.ll serve the younger. " As it is written, Jacob... | |
 | Thomas Vincent - 1806 - 308 pages
...all, if he had so pleased, Rom. ix. 11, 13, 18. The children being not yet born, neither having done good or evil, that the purpose of God according to...not of works, but of him that calleth, it was said, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. For lie hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom... | |
 | Ralph Erskine - 1806 - 338 pages
...pleafed. a John iii. 1 6, God fo loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, &c. Rom; ix. n, For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpofe of God according to election might ftand, not of works, but of him that calleth. v. 13, It... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 pages
...this, what doth St. Paul ? Hear his answers. Before the children were born, before they had done either good or evil", that the purpose of God according to election might stand, he saith, the elder shall serve the younger. Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. I will have... | |
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Isaac, (for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth,) it was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger. As it is written,... 
