But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Moses gave your fathers these same titles, a holy nation, a priestly kingdom, God's peculiar people, but you have recovered them now in Christ with far greater reality and power. Since God has separated you from the world by such singular privilege, beware lest unbelief rob you of what is now truly yours.
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Christ is the living stone, invincible strength, eternal duration, your protection and foundation. Men reject Him, but God chose and made Him precious beyond all reckoning. Come to Him by faith; on Him alone rests every hope of happiness and every spiritual blessing.
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Commenting on 1 Peter 2:4-12
Before conversion you were not reckoned a people at all, nor had you obtained mercy, though God's mercies toward His elect were always in His heart. But now, regenerated and called, you are avouched by God to be His people, and you have obtained the manifest display of His pardoning grace through Christ's blood.
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