This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love "(i. 4). And immediately after the predestinated place in the order of the Divine economy: "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will" (i. 5). And again, the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1831 Excerpt: ...of the world, that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love "(i. 4). And immediately after the predestinated place in the order of the Divine economy: "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will" (i. 5). And again, the purpose of God by all things whatsoever, whether in heaven or earth, assigning them their places in the Christ against the dispensation of the fulness of the times, is thus set forth: "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth " (i. 9, 10). All things are to be exhibited, and for ever to stand summed up in Christ, gathered into him, according to the order of that economy which was seen in Christ before the foundation of the world. Then is the predestinate form of the Christ accomplished in outward reality. The following passage of the same Epistle casts a still greater light upon this subject: "And to make all men see, what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ. To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places, might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God; according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord" (iii. 9--11). And not only so, but the Lamb is said to have been slain, and his book of life to have been written from the foundation of the world, as we shewed in Lecture VIII. And still more remarkable is the language of these t...
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