...knowledge of Christ in conversion, as of what before was hidden and unseen in that. Gal. i. 15, 16. " But when it pleased God, who separated me from my...called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me." The scripture also speaks plainly of such a knowledge of the word of God, as has been described, as...

...When it pleased God," saith the) Apostle, " who separated me from my mother's womb, and culled Hie by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with. flesh and blood." Such ought every preacher of the Gospel...

...account of his conversion will confirm this statement. " It pleased God" (says he, Gal. i. 15, 16) "who separated me " from my mother's womb, and called me by His " grace, to reveal His Son in me." The good pleasure of God was the impulsive cause of his vocation, and Divine grace the efficient. And...

...his knowledge of the traditions of his fathers, and hrs zeal for them us things abieVOL. III. 14 1 5 But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 16 To re veal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not...

...an elect man ; the grace of election ran through all this, and over all this. It pleased God, that separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, Gal. i. 15. The power of election overcame all. There are many of the elect children of God, that have...

...wilt thou have me to do?" Acts, chap. ix. 3—6. With these compare the epistle, chap. i. 15 —17: " When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called ine by his grace to reveal his son in me, that I might* preach him among the heathen; immediately I...

...when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 7 •' 16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred . , n , . , . not with flesh and blood : 17 Neither went I up 10 Jerusalem...

...heart, Jam. i. 1 8. 1 Pet. i. 23. The apostle, concerning his own conversion, says, Jt pleased God, wh» separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, Gal. i. 15. It was a kind of strange separation. The poor young man was left of God as eminently ss...

...circumstanced, according as their will may lead them to vice or to virtue." — Vol. ip 504. JEROME. " ' WHEN it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's...reveal his son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen (x) :' not only in this passage, but in his epistle to the Romans, Paul writes, that he was...

...which St. Paul first opened his heavenly ministry. " When it pleased God," saith that Apostle, " who called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that. I might preach him among the heathen ; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood ; neither went I up to Jerusalem, but I...