...than all that the best of them ever possessed in the world, to be admitted into your number. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit. Here is, 1. the chief seat, or subject of the work of sanctification, the soul ; 2. the subordinate...

...purity, integrity, and separation is of the body : which doctrine we are taught by St. Peter : " Seing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently"." For a virgin, that consecrates her body to God, and pollutes her spirit with rage, or...

...the living God ? Do you love the God who sent him, and endeavor to keep his commandments ? Have you purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren ? Does the spirit bear witness with your spirit, that you are the children of God, because you love...

...believe that he is, and that he is a rewaider of thorn that diligently seek him. 1 Pet. i. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of Ibe brethren, see lhat ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. Ephes. v. 9. For the fruit...

...brotherly love ; this will serve to illustrate the excellency of the principle Have any of you, who once " purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren," again defiled your garments? Then what a fearful forfeiture have you sustained ! You have exchanged...

...Father's right hand, is assurance to us, that where he is we shall be also, John xiv. 3. Ver*. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying' the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love oj 'the brethren ; see that ye love one another with a pure Jteart ferventfy. JESUS CHRIST is made...

...the believer's obedience results from " the sanctification of " the Spirit:" and he says, " Seeing ye have purified your " souls, in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto un" feigned love of the brethren." s Surely these are duties of Christianity peculiar to no age or...

...raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, " that your faith and hope might be in God. See" ing ye have purified your souls in obeying the " truth,...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,...

...refines every social principle, and gives brotherly love its life and energy. Hence Peter says, " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth,...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." 5. Another evidence that Christ is precious to us, is aii earnest desire, and constant...

...righteousness, and truth." " The love of God is " shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost." " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the " truth,...the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of " the brethren." " If ye through the Spirit do " mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." What are we to understand...