...friendship! Are not these grand ideas ? But one, unspeakably more grand, is yet to be mentioned. " God so loved the world, as to give his only-begotten Son, that we might not perish, but have everlasting life." Astonishing and dignifying consideration ! The eternal...

...Scripture, happily tends to its confirmation. Let us reason the point fairly, from the following truths : " God so loved the world, as to give his only-begotten Son," that is, as your prayer-book says, "for us men, and for our salvation." Here then is love, love in the highest...

...answering him said : Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the king of Israel." John i. 18, 34, 49. " God so loved the world, as to give his only-begotten Son; that whosoever beJievelb in him may not perish, but may have life everlasting. For God sent not his Son into the world,...

...when the treasures of infinite love are opened to the soul, and it is recognized as a faithful saying, "that God so loved the world, as to give his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth iu him should have eternal life?" Shall there not be peace in the breast which feels the force of this...

...destruction. Again, when our LORD describes his Gospel as rendered abortive ; so that it was to no purpose that " GOD so loved the world as to give his onlybegotten SON, that whosoever bdieveth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life," or that the HOLY SPIRIT 1ms been promised,...

...Gospel his. 1823.] tory ; for the Gospel consists not in the facts, but in the meaning of the facts. Wo are not left to interpret the facts ourselves, but,...world, as to give his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believcth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' In order to understand and believe...

...misery ; that, notwithstanding all this, -i ransom is found, to deliver him from going down to the pit ; that God so loved the world, as to give his only-begotten Son, to be* Letters to a Philosophical Uabeliever, Part I. Letter VI. come a sacrifice for sin, that whosoever...

...misery ; that, notwithstanding all this, a ransom is found, to deliver him from going down to the pit ; that God so loved the world, as to give his only-begotten Son, to be * Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever, Part I. Letter VI. come a sacrifice for sin, that whosoever...

...our minds must correspond to this object, that is to say, it must be a moral impression, otherwise we do not understand it, and therefore cannot believe...written, " that God so loved the world as to give His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."...

...eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life ; and I will raise him up at the last day." " God so loved the world as to give his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him may not perish, but have everlasting life." Many said this was a hard saying, and murmured at...