...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 truth,...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...

...christians united in knowing and obeying the truth, whom the Apostle Peter thus addresses : " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...with " regenerated," baptism must be intended. The words are found in connection as follows : " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently ; being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which...

...(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...

...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...

...sinneth not ; but he that is born of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." " Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth,...through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, — being born again, — Wherefore, — as new born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word. —...