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“A peculiar people.”
—1 Peter 2:9
What an involuntary testimony do ungodly persons often bear to the truth of the Scriptures! What, for instance, is more common in the world, and amongst those who are lying dead in a profession, than language of this kind: “What an odd kind of people there are at such a chapel! What particular notions they have! What peculiar sentiments they entertain! There is only a set of peculiar books suited to them, and there are only a few peculiar preachers whom they will hear; and in all their words and actions they manifest an exclusiveness, a bigotry, a narrow-mindedness which is very different from what you witness at other places!”
Is not this bearing a testimony to the truth of God’s Word? Does not truth unwillingly fall here from the lips of enemies? Has not God Himself said that they are “a peculiar people?” Then this very peculiarity that is stamped upon them, and which the keen eye of the world discovers, is an evidence that they are those of whom God has said that they are “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1Pe 2:9). This “peculiar [special] people” has existed through all ages from the days of the first promise, and will exist until the final consummation of all things.
Abel was one of this peculiar people, and the peculiar blessings that God favoured him with drew down upon him the wrath of his murderous brother. Noah was one of this peculiar people, whom God directed to build the ark as typical of Christ Jesus the Lord, in Whom His dear people find a refuge from the deluging waves and showers of God’s wrath. Lot in Sodom was one of this peculiar people, who vexed his righteous soul from day to day by witnessing their ungodly deeds. Abraham in the land of the Canaanites, Isaac his son, Jacob his grandson, were the ancestors of a peculiar people upon whom God had set His own stamp, that He had separated them from the nations of the earth as typical of a people foreordained to eternal glory...
“A peculiar people.”
—1 Peter 2:9
What an involuntary testimony do ungodly persons often bear to the truth of the Scriptures! What, for instance, is more common in the world, and amongst those who are lying dead in a profession, than language of this kind: “What an odd kind of people there are at such a chapel! What particular notions they have! What peculiar sentiments they entertain! There is only a set of peculiar books suited to them, and there are only a few peculiar preachers whom they will hear; and in all their words and actions they manifest an exclusiveness, a bigotry, a narrow-mindedness which is very different from what you witness at other places!”
Is not this bearing a testimony to the truth of God’s Word? Does not truth unwillingly fall here from the lips of enemies? Has not God Himself said that they are “a peculiar people?” Then this very peculiarity that is stamped upon them, and which the keen eye of the world discovers, is an evidence that they are those of whom God has said that they are “a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light” (1Pe 2:9). This “peculiar [special] people” has existed through all ages from the days of the first promise, and will exist until the final consummation of all things.
Abel was one of this peculiar people, and the peculiar blessings that God favoured him with drew down upon him the wrath of his murderous brother. Noah was one of this peculiar people, whom God directed to build the ark as typical of Christ Jesus the Lord, in Whom His dear people find a refuge from the deluging waves and showers of God’s wrath. Lot in Sodom was one of this peculiar people, who vexed his righteous soul from day to day by witnessing their ungodly deeds. Abraham in the land of the Canaanites, Isaac his son, Jacob his grandson, were the ancestors of a peculiar people upon whom God had set His own stamp, that He had separated them from the nations of the earth as typical of a people foreordained to eternal glory...
