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Title: The Methodist magazine and quarterly review
Year: 1833 (1830s)
Authors: Methodist Episcopal Church
Subjects: Theology Methodist Church
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Published for the Methodist Episcopal Church by J. Emory and B. Waugh
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ebrews. We may now, it is believed, easily perceive the design of the sacredwriters in the use of the language we have been considering. TheJews were ever ready to cavil at the plan of salvation through JesusChrist. See Eph. i, 9; iii, 11; Acts xi, 2-18; Rom. ix, 19-33, andxvi, 25. They objected, especially, to the salvation of the Gentiles,as, being from the beginning excluded from the covenant and designof God, they could not be saved. And against this objection some oithe most cogent reasonings in the epistles of the New Testament aredirected, and nearly the whole of the Epistles to the Romans and theEphesians. But the apostle goes on to show, which he does mostforcibly, that the death of Jesus Christ, Acts ii, 22, 23, the calling andsalvation of the Gentiles, Rom. viii, 29 ; Eph. i, 4, are no fortuitousevents in the economy of God, Gen. iii, 15 ; xxii, 16, 17 ; Heb. vi,16, 17; but were designed and planned, by the infinite Being, from ihtfoundation of the world. La Roy Suhperlasd.
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THE METHODIST MAGAZINE, AND Vol. XV, No. 4. OCTOBER, 1S33. New Series—Vol. IV, No. 4. A DISCOURSE Delivered at the dedication of a Church in Danby, JS\ F., by the Rev.Elias Bowen, Presiding Elder of the, Berkshire District^ OneidaConference. i . * God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and intruth, John iv, 24. These words grew out of a conversation which took place betweenour blessed Savior, in the days of his flesh, and a Samaritan female,on the subject of religion. The woman, it is true, from her ignoranceof Divine things, and from the figurative language which our Savioremployed, did not at first conceive His design, either as it respectedthe subject introduced, or the use He intended to make of it: For awhile she viewed Him in the light of a common traveller; and per-ceiving Ilijn to be a Jew, she was greatly surprised that He shouldtreat with so much courtesy a woman of Samaria. But He who1 knew what was in man, and how to address both the unders

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