It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was.

God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us.

The Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in one’s eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it. So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes.

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.