A Practical Commentary Upon the First Epistle of St. Peter, Volume 2Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1849 - Bible |
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... bodies , in sanctification and honour ; ( by which is there expressed this same chastity ; ) and this we shall do if we rightly re- member our calling as Christians , in what sort of life soever ; as there he tells us , God hath not ...
... bodies , in sanctification and honour ; ( by which is there expressed this same chastity ; ) and this we shall do if we rightly re- member our calling as Christians , in what sort of life soever ; as there he tells us , God hath not ...
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... body , their lawfulness or unlawful- ness : only , First , It is out of doubt , that though clothing was first drawn on by necessity , yet , all regard of comeliness and ornament in apparel , is not un- lawful ; nor doth the Apostle's ...
... body , their lawfulness or unlawful- ness : only , First , It is out of doubt , that though clothing was first drawn on by necessity , yet , all regard of comeliness and ornament in apparel , is not un- lawful ; nor doth the Apostle's ...
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... body , and take share with it of its unworthy borrowed ornaments , while it hath lost and forgotten God , and seeks not after Him , knows not that He alone is the beauty and ornament of the soul . His Spirit and the graces of it , its ...
... body , and take share with it of its unworthy borrowed ornaments , while it hath lost and forgotten God , and seeks not after Him , knows not that He alone is the beauty and ornament of the soul . His Spirit and the graces of it , its ...
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... body was but borrowed ; then it is made bare of all . But spiri- tual ornaments , and this of humility , and meekness amongst them , remain and are incorruptible ; they neither wear out , nor go out of fashion , but are still the better ...
... body was but borrowed ; then it is made bare of all . But spiri- tual ornaments , and this of humility , and meekness amongst them , remain and are incorruptible ; they neither wear out , nor go out of fashion , but are still the better ...
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... body , and a serious study of preserving and increasing that agreement in all things , but especially in spiritual ... bodies together , which indeed do not strive and contest , that is , they move not at all , because they live not ; so ...
... body , and a serious study of preserving and increasing that agreement in all things , but especially in spiritual ... bodies together , which indeed do not strive and contest , that is , they move not at all , because they live not ; so ...
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Page 27 - Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 'not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Page 85 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile : let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 19 - Likewise, .ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life ; that your prayers be not hindered.
Page 402 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 210 - Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
Page 444 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility, for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 183 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 417 - Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, [as] unto a faithful Creator.
Page 11 - Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel; but let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the orna-ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.