...that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners ; of whom I am chief. Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might...show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting. WHEN we read the Bible, it is a great comfort...

...God certainly has a purpose in all this. An inspired apostle could say, " Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might...show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." In illustration of the idea just expressed,...

...fitted him to be a striking monument of the richest grace. Hear his own words : " For this cause I obtained mercy, that in me. first Jesus Christ might...show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them that should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." 1 Tim. i. 16. If the elect, while remaining...

...the apostle, who, before a blasphemer and a persecutor and injurious, confesses, " For this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might...show forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting."* It is a book of praise to the riches of...

...did predestinate." Take again another passage. " I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly ;" " I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsufFering 1." It appears that the Apostle saw no inconsistency in preaching that no sinner can claim forgiveness,...

...call to the sinner's soul. St. Paul says of himself that for this cause he obtained mercy, that in him first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.1 And it was the entire change which took...

...sinners, of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." (1 Tim. i. 15, 1C.) Who, indeed, could ever have thought that the young...

...to his authority, say with St. Paul ; '' / obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them who should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting." (1 Tim. i. 1(5.) Since, then, Christ, the pattern of our life, shewed...

...that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long-suflering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe in him to life everlasting." What...

...cause I obtained mercy, that in me, first " (first, not in point of time, but in point of guilt), " Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on Him to life everlasting." " I look," said Simeon of Cambridge on...