...gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust. 13. And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry. Rom. xii. 4. As we have many members in one body, and all members hare not the same office: 5. So we...

...proposed, is, What it the obtaining af mercy? A frequent manner of speech in scripture: 1 Tim. i. 1 3. Who -was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy. 1 Pet. ii. 10. Which in time past -were not a people, but are now the people of God: -which had not...

...because I PERSECUTED the church of God. [i Ep. xv. 9.] And to Timothy, 1 thank Christ Jesus our Lard, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful,...injurious. But I obtained mercy, because I did it in IGNORANCE and UNBELIEF, [i Ep. i. 13.] ie being a Jew. P. 34. [D] Dr. Stebbing, though he differs...

...our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted vte JaithJ'ul, putting me into the ministry ; vho was before a blasphemer, and a PERSECUTOR, and injurious. But I obtained mercy, because I did it in IGNORANCE and UNBEUEv, [i Ep. j. 12,] ie being a Jew. P. 34. [D] Dr. Stebbing, though he differs...

...of his own conversion; " I was a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious, yet I obtained mercy; and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith, and love, which is in Jesus Christ." Now I am sent to publish and preach to blasphemers and persecutors, that "this is a...

...grace, and afterwards, demanding what was due. What is the confession of grace in St. Paul '. — ' I who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious : but I obtained mercy (a:).' He called himself unworthy to obtain mercy ; however, that he did obtain it, not through his...

...accuses himself, is apparent from the verses immediately preceding : " I thank Christ Jesus, our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful,...obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief," (chap. i. 12, 13.) The whole quotation plainly refers to St. Paul's original enmity to the Christian...

...cities." In Paul's first Epistle to Timothy, 1st chapter, he writes, "And I thank Jesus Christ our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before" (that is my conversion)'^ BLASPHEMER, anda PERSECUTOR, and INJURIOUS." This, Sir, is the testimony...

...*' that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.'* And the apostle Paul, in the view of his being before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious • But I obtained mercy, because I did it horantly, in unbelief.*' ould Sarah have foreseen, that her first plaa would finally go into effect,...

...the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.' And says that apostle of himself, 1 Tim. i. 13. ' I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious. But I obtained mercy.' Ofttimes grace chuses to work on the most knotty piece of timber, which there is the least hope of....