...should not now sometimes occur. God says to Jere miah, "Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee, and before thou earnest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee." And of John the Baptist, Gabriel said to Zacharias, his father, "And he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost,...

...(i. 5) : " Before I formed thee in the womb, I knew thee ; and before thou eamest forth at thy birth, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet to the nations." We may, perhaps, find a reason for the use of such language respecting the Saviour by considering that...

...Scarcely through tears could see them on their steeds Spring up, and go their way. So on they went, camett forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Then said I, Ah, LORD GOD, behold I cannot speak, for I am a child. But the Lord...

...tells us Jer. 1,5. this? The Lord says to Jeremiah, Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee. He, then, who in framing men, touches them and is not ashamed, should He be ashamed, in r» *ar*- fashioning...

...Jeremiah the Lord saith, Before I not V. forme(i fhee in fa faiiy i knew thee, and before thou eamest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a Is. 55,4. prophet among the nations. Likewise in Isaiah, Behold,! have not V. givcn Him for a witness...

...Jeremiah, saying: Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee ; *^ Rev. vi. 10. ,f Ex. xxxii. 31. and before thou earnest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee, and ordained thee a prophet unto the nations;* and to him, oftentimes making intercession and prayers for...

...5 ;) ' Before 1 formed thee in the womb, I knew thee ; and before thou earnest forth at thy birth, I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet to the nations.' We will now consider some passages of a different character. In his conversation with Nicodemus, our...

...was said to Jeremiah, i., 5, " Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee ; and before thou eamest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations ;" or rather it refers to the time when God revealed his Son in him, that he might...

...eternity he gave you to the Son to be redeemed ? " Before I formed thee in the belly, I knew thee ; and before thou earnest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee." Does it give you no joy to think that the Son of God thought on you with love before the world was...

...Lord called " from the womb." Isa. xlis. 1. To Jeremiah also (i. 5,) God said, "Before thou eamest forth out of the womb, I sanctified thee ; and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." Whether the sanctification consisted in simply setting him apart as a prophet, or...