...observation, from the perusal of the precious words, of the Lord Jesus in the text. Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you and ordained you that ye should go and bj-ing forth fruit and that your fruit should remain that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father...

...; for all things that I have heard " of my Father I have made known unto you. " Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen " you, and ordained you, that ye should go " and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit " should remain : b that whatsoever ye shall ask a As a branch cut off. " of the Father...

...death, not in consequence of any regard which they had shown to him, but merely from liis own good will. 16. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you and ordained you, rather^ " placed yow," that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain,...

...only in a few instances, it might be fairly vindicated by the highest authority. " Ye have not chosen me ; but I have chosen you, " and ordained you, that ye should go and bring cc forth fruit."1 It is certain that the eleven apostles did choose Christ, but his choice...

...apostles also inform us how Christ had revealed his will to them ; as it is written, " I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit; and that your fruit should remain," John xv. 16. And that he bid them " go and preach the gospel to every...

...iv. 23. vii. 16. viii. 1. 20. ix. 1, 13. and x. 3. And this is also declared to the end of election; John xv. 16. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should gj and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain. Eph. i. 4. According...

...; for all things that I have heard of my Father, I have made 16 known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that...forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain : that whatever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may 17 give it yuu.* These things 1 command you,...

...ver. 18. This exactly corresponds with what is elsewhere said of the twelve — " Ye have not chosen me but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit," John xv. 1C. " If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because...

...rendered by the choir, and a sermon, appropriate to the occasion, was preached by the Rev. W. Woodman, from John xv. 16, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have...you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that yourfruit should remain. " The preacher commenced by observing that in addition to the solemn...

...departure from them, and administered consoation and instruction to them, he said, " Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remam." But the apostles themselves, thus divinely appointed, " chosen and ordained,"...