...soul, a man is filled with an ardour and warmth of zeal in the cause in which he is engaged. Now, " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing ;" and if our ardour of BOtl! be from the Spirit of God, according to the revealed will of God, and...

...A spurious zeal in the cause of religion, is mistaken by some as an evidence of vital piety That " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing," is the declaration of an apostle.* And that * Gal. iv. 18. it is always a most unpromising and suspicious...

...disturbance ? Excitement on such a subject as this is good and commendable. An apostle has said, " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." And what better thing can awaken the zeal, and engage the warm efforts of Christians, than the purification...

...best writers in prose and poetry, and even by the translators of Scripture, in a favourable sense. " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." (Gal. iv. 18; see also Acts xxii. 3 ; 1 Cor. xiv. 12 ; Gal. i. 14; Titus ii. 14, and MR) The zeal for...

...zealously affect you, but not well ; yea, they would exclude- you, that ye might affect them. 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when 1 am present with you. PARAPHRASE. 12 I beseech you, hrethren, let you and I be as...

...accounted by the world no better than folly and madness, yet we are assured from divine authority, that " it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." It is in a good thing only that zeal is good. In an evil thing, it is exceedingly evil ; as on the...

...it is directed. Hence the Apostle limits his commendation of it by this particular consideration ; " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." If exercised in a bad cause, it only precipitates a person to the commission of greater evil : but,...

...They zealously affect you, but not well ; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until...

...contention is not sinful. The aposfle says himself, " Contend for the faith. Be angry and sin not. It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." Jesus Christ did not break the law of love, when he looked round with anger upon the Pharisees, "being...

...the comforts they had received by attending to the sound doctrines of these two servants of God. " It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing." Gal. iv. 18. • Slillingfl. Orig*Britan. c. 4. p. 232— 237. CHAPTER HI. Revival of the Pelagian...