A key to the New Testament [by T. Percy]. |
Common terms and phrases
Acts addreffed Afia againſt alfo alſo ancient anſwers Apoſtle becauſe Biſhop bleffing Book Capernaum cauſe Cerinthus Chap Chrift Chriftian Church Circumcifion Coloffe confifted converts Corinth CORINTHIANS defign DEMIURGUS Difciples diftinguiſhed Diocletian diſtinct divine doctrine Eons Epaphras Ephefus EPHESIANS EPHESUS Epiftle EPISTLE TO TIMOTHY eſtabliſhed Evangelifts facred faith falfe fame fecond fect feem fent fhews fhort fhould fins firft firſt fome ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fuperior fuppofed Gentiles Goſpel Greek Hebrew Hence Herodians Hiftory himſelf Holy impriſonment inftruction Irenæus Jefus Jerufalem Jewish Jews Jews and Gentiles John Judea laft Lardner laſt Law of Mofes leaſt Luke Luke's Macedonia Matt MATTHEW Mede Michaelis moft moſt NICOLAITANS Obfervations occafion paffages Paul Paul's perfecution perfons Pharifees preached promiſed Prophecies prophetic publiſhed puniſh reafon Refurrection Roman Rome Saviour ſeem ſeveral ſome ſtate ſuch Teftament thefe themſelves theſe thinks thofe thoſe TIMOTHY univerfally uſe viii whofe worſhip writings written wrote
Popular passages
Page 32 - For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ; ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 96 - Moses, we perpetually become subject to death, even by sins of inadvertency: chap. vii. 1, to the end. x. Hence he concludes that all those, and those only, who are united with Christ, and for the sake of his union do not live according to...
Page 92 - God was bound to fufil these promises to them, whether they were righteous or wicked, faithful or unbelieving. They even believed that a prophet ought not to pronounce against their nation the prophecies with which he was inspired; but was rather to beg of God to expunge his name out of the book of the living.
Page 93 - The Gentiles acknowledged truths; but partly by their idolatry, and partly by their other detestable vices, they sinned against the truth they acknowledged.
Page 95 - As the whole blessing was promised to the faithful descendants of Abraham, whom both Scripture and the Jews call his children, he proves his former assertion from the example of Abraham; who...
Page 114 - Epistle was intended to establish the EPHESIANS in the faith ; and to this end, to give them more exalted views of the love of God, and of the excellence and dignity of CHRIST : To shew them they were saved by grace, and that the Gentiles (however wretched they had been once) had now equal privileges with the Jews : To encourage them, by declaring with what steadiness he (St.
Page 141 - Jews; for the satisfaction and establishment of the believing Hebrews, proceeds, II. To prepare and fortify their minds against the storm of persecution, which in part had already befallen them, and was likely to continue, and be often renewed. He reminds them of...
Page 159 - Roman empire, or its civil revolutions, yet with a reference still to the state and fortune of the Christian church. The third part is that of the open book, with what follows to the end ; and exhibits, in a more minute and extended view, the fates...
Page 107 - God for the fuccefs attending his miniftry, and fpeaks of the Corinthians as his credentials, written by the finger of God, (chap. ii. iii. I— 6.). 3. He treats of the office committed to him of preaching the redemption ; and highly prefers it to preaching the law : to which probably his adverfaries had made great pretences. They had ridiculed his fufferings -, which he...
Page 138 - Christ on account of his humiliation, which, in perfect consistence with his dominion over the world to come, was voluntarily submitted to by him for wise and important reasons ; particularly to to deliver us from the fear of death, and to encourage the freedom of our access to God, chap.