...adds, " I pray God that you may abound yet " more and more :" — and, " Seeing you have puri" fied your souls, in obeying the truth, through the " Spirit,...— see " that ye love one another with a pure heart fer*' ventlyt." Comparing these Scriptures with our Lord's declaration, " Every branch in me, that...

...blamed, or con' dcmned, by alleging that he sinned unwillingly, or by ' compulsion.'* — " Seeing ye have purified your souls, " in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto unfeign" edlove of the brethren."f " Whereuntol also labour, " striving according to his working, which...

...they live, works by love, and purifies their heart. 1 Pet. 1, 22. 'Seeing ye have purified your sou's, in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto unfeigned...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." Contemplating these facts and principles, the believer will imitate the Apostle and say...

...goodness, meekness. The apostle Peter tells the Christians he writes to, that they had " 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...

...the fear of the Lord." "Every man that hath this hope in him pnrifieth himself even as he is pure." " Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit." The self-sanctification of Christians, therefore, is the separation of the soul by its own volition...

...entire agreement with this, yet taking another view of the subject, the apostle Peter says, " Seeing " ye have purified your souls, in obeying the " truth,...; see that ye love one another " with a pure heart fervently t." They were -Active in this purifying of their souls ; but it was effected by obeying the...

...Let brotherly love continue'. And we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more*. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through...brethren ; see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently8. For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have showed...

...Whitehouse. 341 righteousness of God, and the kingdom of his dear Son. ' Seeing, says the apostle, 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...

...raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory, " that your faith and hope might be in God : seeing " ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth " through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the bre" thren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart " fervently ; being born again, not of corruptible...

...delivered you. Rom. vi. 17. He became the author of eternal salvation to all that obey him. Heb. v. 9. Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit. 1 Pet. i. 22. In whom ye trusted after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation....