| Joseph Lathrop - Congregational churches - 1810 - 660 pages
...fails: Let us then, above all things, have fervent charity among ourselves ; and purify our souls, by obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren. 4. There is one Lvrd, whom we all profess to serve. Jesus Christ is Lord of all by the same right.... | |
| Samuel Hopkins - Millennium (Eschatology) - 1811 - 536 pages
...primitive christians united in knowing and obeying the truth, whom the Apostle Peter thus addresses : " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...brethren ; see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently."t In that day the promise and prophecy spoken by Jeremiah will be accomplished to a greater... | |
| Edward Davies - 1811 - 438 pages
...Scripture — Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself—ye do well. (James, ii. 8.) So also St. Peter: — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. (1 Pet. i. 22.) St. John declares — He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and... | |
| Charles Simeon - Sermons - 1810 - 528 pages
...Thess. iv. \7, 18. CCCCLII. LOVE TO THE BRETHREN. Pet. i. 22. Seeing that ye have purified your souk in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto unfeigned...brethren; see that ye love one another with a pure heart ftrAS our Christian profession lays us under peculiar obligations to holiness, so our Christian experience... | |
| Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 408 pages
...worthy to be blamed, or ' condemned, by alledging that he sinned unwil' lingly, or by compulsion.'2—" Seeing ye have " purified your souls, in obeying the...truth, through " the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren."3 " Whereunto I also labour, striving according to " his working, which worketh in me mightily."4... | |
| John Maclaurin - Sermons, English - 1811 - 406 pages
...goodness, meekness. The apostle Peter tells the Christians he writes to, that they bad purified their souls, in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren. These expressions 'suppose that the persons spoken of, were active and diligent in the study of brotherly... | |
| Thomas Scott - Calvinism - 1811 - 824 pages
...produced by preventing grace. " If ye, through " the Spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, &c." " Seeing ye have purified your souls, in obeying the "'truth through the Spirit." " May the God of " peace make you perfect in every good work, to do " his will, working in you that... | |
| John Allen - 1812 - 172 pages
...(avayevvq<roi£ regenerated us) unto a lively " hope, by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from " the dead. Seeing ye have purified your souls " in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto un" feigned love of the brethren ; see that ye love " one another with a pure heart fervently : being... | |
| Missions - 1841 - 712 pages
...Christ, " through thy truth ; thy word is truth." " Seeing," said Peter to the Jews of the dispersion, " ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." All the great principles and motives which promote holiness are contained in the Bible... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1813 - 480 pages
...purity, integrity, and separation is of the body: which doctrine we are taught by St. Peter, Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. (1 Pet. i. 22.) For a virgin, that consecrates her body to God, and pollutes her spirit... | |
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