...absolutely free, is evident from the natural state of men. " We ourselves •were sometimes," he says, " foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts...hateful, and hating one another ; but after that, the love and kindness of God our Saviour towards men appeared, not by works of righteousness •which we...

...xii. 2.) unless the mind be only another expression 'for " a vicious course of life." ' We oorselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.' Do these words imply nothing but " a vicious course of life ?" No inward corruption at all ? ' But...

...whom the elect are saved. It is by Christ the Redeemer; Hence the apostle says, Tit. iii. 4, 5, 6. ' After that the kindness and love of God our Saviour...man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the...

...works, but according to his own purpose and grace given them in Christ Jesus before the world began. That the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward...man appeared, not by works* of righteousness which they had done, but by saving them in a way of mercy, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of...

...common character of them, which we have Tit. iii. 3. « We ourselves also were sometimes foolish i disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another/ And they will never yield to him, till they be overcome by his mighty power. He gets no subjects but...

...Scripture abundantly instructs us in, Tit. iii. 3. " We ourselve* also were sometimes foolish, -and disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating of one another." A most wretched, defiled and loath•ome condition, that which justly might be an...

...in any scandalous way. These thoughts are an evidence of a rotten heart, Tit. iii. 3, We ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and tnvy, hateful, and bating cne another, If a man allows himself, . though he thinks he doth not, in...

...in the Epistle to Titus, are the following : " But after that the kindness and love of God towards man appeared, not by works of righteousness which...Holy Ghost, which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour ; that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to...

...For .by thy sorceries all nations were deceived." Even the Apostles were deceived. Titus iii. 3, " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." Secondly, God is not mocked. What is it to mock ? It is to hold up false lights, to delude by misrepresentation,...

...foolishness unto him : neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Tit. iii. 3. For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Ver. 4. But after that the kindness and love of. God our Saviour toward man appeared, Ver. 5. Not by...