 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ ; as obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance :...  A Treatise on Covenanting with God - Page 65by Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 110 pagesFull view - About this book
 | E. J. Burrow - 1822 - 606 pages
...every man. 1 Pet. iii. '2. While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear. 1 Pet. i. 15. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. 1 Tim. iv. 12. Let no man despise thy youth ; but be thou an example of the believers,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber - Theology - 1822 - 544 pages
...it as high as the first precedent, ' 1 John, i. 6, 7. ' Rom. xiii. 12, 13, 14. even God himself: " As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy, in all manner of conversation : not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts1." And again : " Seeing, then,... | |
 | Arminianism - 1819 - 996 pages
...wrote, that it was not lawful to follow those things which had previously engaged their attention ; " As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts, in your ignorance." The last view taken of them is, that they are unedifying. They may edify in the knowledge of gaming,... | |
 | Robert Leighton - Theology - 1822 - 576 pages
...with pure gold. To Him then, that hath prepared that city for us, let us ever give praise. Ver. 14. As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts, in your ignorance : 15. But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation ; 16. Because... | |
 | John Pearson (bp. of Chester.) - 1822 - 576 pages
...holy. And the apostle upon the same ground speaketh unto us, as to obedient children, " As he that hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation," 1 Pet. i. 15. It is part of the general beneficence and universal goodness of our God,... | |
 | Henry Kollock - Presbyterian Church - 1822 - 510 pages
...press this motive when enjoining each peculiar virtue. Do they exhort us to holiness ? " As he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." (1 Pet. i. 15.) Do they incite us to charity? " Walk in love, as Christ also hath loved... | |
 | Abraham Booth - Grace (Theology) - 1822 - 280 pages
...to holiness of life. Their calling is another consideration used to the same purpose.* ' As he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation.' The Christian should often meditate on the nature and excellency of his high, holy,... | |
 | Robert Leighton - Theology - 1822 - 552 pages
...grow daily more respective and tender of it, and be more circumspect in your actions ; and as he who hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation. Thy kingdom come. He that is the beginning of all things, must likewise of necessity... | |
 | William Sewel - Society of Friends - 1823 - 704 pages
...ye transformed by the renewing of your mind." And the apostle Peter, agreeable to this, saith, '• As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according...called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation ;" all which clearly implieth, that a Christian ought to be very strict and careful in... | |
 | Hervey Wilbur - Catechisms, English - 1823 - 144 pages
...neighbour as thyself. Be ye therefore PERFECT : even as your Father which is in heaven, is perfect.- But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye...of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy. Luke 10. 27. Mat. 5. 48. 1 Pet. 1. 15, 16. |] Heb. 12. 14. Kph. 4. 22—24. 2 Pet. 3.... | |
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