...neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ ver. 15, 18. But when it pleased God, (who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace) to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood : neither...

...nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased him, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Gentiles, immediately I condescended not to flesh and blood. Neither...

...giveth the increase." — " It pleased God," saith our apostle, speaking of himself, Gal. i. 15. " who separated me from my mother's womb,' and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me." And in another part of his writings, " By the grace of God I am what I am." Nor did these expressions...

...himself to the disciples." Acts, chap, ix. 19—26. According to the Epistle, " When it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his own Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and...

...conversion, a vocation pregnant with the greatest prodigies, made use of no other terms than these : " AVho separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace ;"* that is, according to the explication of St. Ambrose, by calling me to live separate from the corruption...

...conversion, as of what betore was hidden and unseen; Gal. i. 15, 16. " But when it pieased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me." — The scripture also speaks plainly of such a knowledge of the word of God, as has been described...

...will may lead them to vice or to virtue." — Vol. i . p. 504. JKHOME. " ' WHEN it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen (x) : ' not only in this passage, but in his epistle to the...

...might all be brought to say, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? — But when it pleased him who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace, to reveal his son in me, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood." Is it necessary to name a fourth particular instance,...

...nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers ; but when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood*. I was...

...Father did so, he himself declares in his Epistle to the Galatians (i. 15, 16). " It pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen ;" and that, again, the onlybegotten Son did this likewise,...