| Robert Skeen - 1857 - 440 Seiten
...Church whose great High Priest had passed into the heavens;—and all whose members on the earth were an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,...acceptable to God, by Jesus Christ. (1 Peter ii. 5.) conjecture that Dan may possibly have originally been written where Manastes now stands. But I believe... | |
| Rev. Henry Ives Bailey - 1857 - 870 Seiten
...thee among much people. Psal. xxxv. 18. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,...acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 1 Peter ii. 5. By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our... | |
| 1857 - 692 Seiten
...carnal, impracticable materials, but its members, "as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,...acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." — 1 Peter ii : 5. Hardly: So also is a church, — as the figure of a body in its relation to the head implies, — a... | |
| 1858 - 620 Seiten
...speaking to the saints of God, he saith, " Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ," 1 Pet. ii. 5 ; whereas our prayers, and the other services which we perform to him, are called spiritual... | |
| James Garner - 1859 - 620 Seiten
...St. Peter speaks to the same effect : " Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ" 1 Peter ii. .r,. We may also add, that Christ is our sole advocate or mediator : " There is one God and one mediator... | |
| John Scott Porter - 1860 - 184 Seiten
...mercy-seat, so are we, by the Apostle Peter, declared to be " living stones," a " spiritual house," and an " holy priesthood," to offer up " spiritual sacrifices,...acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." (1 Peter ii., 5.) As Christ's obedience unto death was likened to a sacrifice, so the prayers and good deeds of Christians... | |
| James Garner - 1860 - 638 Seiten
...St. Peter speaks to the same effect : " Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,...acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. 1 Peter ii. 5. We may also add, that Christ is our sole advocate or mediator: "There is one God, and one mediator... | |
| John Algernon Clarke - 1862 - 324 Seiten
...through the Spirit.— Ephesians ii. 21, 22. Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices,...acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.— 1 Peter ii. 5. ANCIENT SUPERSTITION. 157 the imposition of creeds and the enforcement of obedience to priestly mandates... | |
| Edward Cooper - 1862 - 206 Seiten
...of men, but chosen of God, and precious, ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." 1 PETER i. 24— ii. 5. " Lord of the worlds above, How pleasant and how fair The dwellings of Thy love—... | |
| John Henry Hopkins - 1864 - 394 Seiten
...Scripture, because St. Peter addresses the laity in these words, viz. : " Ye are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ." (1 Peter 11 : 5.) And again : " Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a. peculiar... | |
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