...according to his promise, look for new heavens, and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness11. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober,...to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ1 ; if ye continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of...

...Master; let your loins be girded about. To the same purpose the apostle Peter exhorts us, (1 Pet. i. 13.) "Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober,...brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ." The New Testament abounds with many exhortations of the same kind ; which will appear to have a peculiar...

...Beginning and the End." Expect this glorious day. "Be ye also ready." "Gird up the loins- of your 'imind,be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is "to be brought unto you at the revelation cf Jesus Christ." Hope of this grace encouraged Paul under suffering and temptation, and emboldened...

...apostle John, " He that saith he abideth in him, ought him" self also so to walk, even as he walked."t " Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind: be sober,...revelation of Jesus Christ: as obedient children, not fashion" ing yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance ; " but, as he which hath called...

...8. Hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober,...brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 1 Pet. i. 13. Seeing it is a righas because it e doth fervently kindle their love him by true repentance,...

...with the delightful admiration of Jesus Christ and the redemption he hath wrought for us. Ver. 13. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober,...brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. IN the words are these three things ; I. the great stay and comfort of the soul, which the apostle...

...labour of love, and patience of hope." 1 Pet. i. 13, 14, " Wherefore, gird up the loins of your mind, he sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is...revelation of Jesus Christ, as obedient children," &c. Psal. cxix. 166, " Lord, I have hoped in thy salvation, and done thy commandments." Psal. Ixxviii....

...gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient...; because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy c. Who his ownself bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we being dead to sins, should live...

...through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.' " UNHOLINESS OF PAGANISM. (From the French.) 1 PETER i. 14 — 16. "As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according...because it is written, Be ye holy ; for I am holy," For here is the second character of true sanctity, as opposed to that pretended civil sanctity which...

...To be faithful in this high filial calling implies much. " As obedient children," says St. Peter, " not fashioning yourselves according to the former...because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy." " As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby " — to young men,...