...and the apostle, in writing to the Thessalonians, uses this remarkable and emphatick language — " For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,...which effectually worketh also in you that believe." In these passages of sacred writ, we have both the sanction and the illustration of the doctrine of...

...and the 'apostle, in writing to the Thessalonians, uses this remarkable and emphatick language — " For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,...which effectually worketh also in you that believe." In these passages of sacred writ, we have both the sanction and the illustration of the doctrine of...

...God also, how holily, and justly, and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe : 11 As ye know how we exhorted, and comforted, and charged...the churches of God •which in Judea are in Christ Jesus : for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews...

...with reading, as well as hearing. The apostle has beautifully expressed this, where he says, — " When ye received the word of God which ye heard of...which effectually worketh also in you that believe," 1 These, ii. 13. Though it is the word of God, sharper than any two-edged sword, it cannot work in...

...Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching, and, &c.— Col. iii. 16. i. 9. Ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us...word of God, which effectually worketh also in you who believe. — 1 Thess. ii. 13. As ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and to please God,...

...Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching, and, &q.— Col. iii. 16. i. 9. Ye received the word of God, which ye heard of us...word of God, which effectually worketh also in you who believe. — 1 Thess. ii. 13. As ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and to please God,...

...his holy apostles and prophets, by the Spirit. "J " For this cause," (he adds in another place,) " thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received...not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the WORD OF GOD."§ He gives also a menacing admonition to those who should despise his directions, as...

...and God also, how holily and justly and unblamcably we behaved ourselves among you that believe : 11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged...which effectually worketh also in you that believe. § 4. 1 THESS. ii. 14 — 20. St. Paul shews the persecuting Spirit of the Jems, by which the Power...

...knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ, 2 Cor. i. 4, 5. For this cause also thank we God without ceasing,...which effectually worketh also in you that believe, 1 Thess. ii. 13. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits...

...holily and justly and unblamably we behaved ourselves among you that believe, 1 Thess. ii.10. Fortiiis cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,...which effectually worketh also in you that believe, tor ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judxa are in Christ Jesus : For...