...question whether the vices of the mind are not represented as the more grievous. "Ye were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." In this place, a climax «eems intended ; and what, in the •oft language of our days, is called a...

...many are fur from righteousness ? far fom being zealous of good tuorks ? How many are disobedient, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and en~vy, hateful and hating one another ? If the curse which gotth forth over the face of the whole earth, even under the gospel, be such,...

...meekness unto all men : for we ourselves were. " sometime disobedient, deceived, serving divers4' "' lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, " hateful, and hating one another :" and should have lived, died, and perished most justly, as " vessels of " wrath fitted for destruction...

...instrumental to our salvation. St. Paul, writing to Titus, observes, " we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. But aficr that the kindness and love of God our » Tit. Ui. 5, Saviour toward man appeared — not by works...

...mind be only another expression 'for " a vicious course of life." ' We oorselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.' Do these words imply nothing but " a vicious course of life ?" No inward corruption at all ? ' But...

...common character of them, which we have Tit. iii. 3. « We ourselves also were sometimes foolish i disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another/ And they will never yield to him, till they be overcome by his mighty power. He gets no subjects but...

...Scripture abundantly instructs us in, Tit. iii. 3. " We ourselve* also were sometimes foolish, -and disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating of one another." A most wretched, defiled and loath•ome condition, that which justly might be an...

...scandalous way. These thoughts are an evidence of a rotten heart, Tit. iii. 3, We ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and tnvy, hateful, and bating cne another, If a man allows himself, . though he thinks he doth not, in...

...hath quickened us together with Christ. By grace ye are saved. — We ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared ; not by works of righteousness which...

...were deceived." Even the Apostles were deceived. Titus iii. 3, " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." Secondly, God is not mocked. What is it to mock ? It is to hold up false lights, to delude by misrepresentation,...