...we are informed that- the religion of Christ is not a religion of forms — that the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost ; but now ceremonies were multiplied, men were led to addict themselves to these as of primary...

...afford, Our prlv'lege is most sweet, And will with comfort! greet. MVOL. II. Q q "The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. ...Bom. xiv. 17. How much did our dear Saviour bear, what pains did he take with his first disciples...

...Sewan!, and preached without molestation. April 3d, he arrived in London, and preached at the Fonndery, on, " The kingdom of God is not meat and " drink,..." Ghost.'''' He observes, " My heart was enlarged m " prayer for the infant Society." The Society in London was at this time terribly distracted with...

...deserted. Husks, and shells, and chaff, will never nourish souls for eternity. ' The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.' We write it without anger, yet knowing that we speak the plain truth, when we reiterate the...

...drinks, he states it as a general and fundamental doctrine of Christianity, that " " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." It seems also by the mode of reasoning which the Apostle adopts in his epistle to the Corinthians...

...penances, &c. And St. Paul tells us, with respect to such customs as these, that " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy Ghost." ie that the christian religion does not consist in such sorry things, as eating or not eating...

...spirit, and '•' not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men, but of : ' God. The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, ' but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. :i The kingdom of God is not in word but in power." And to draw towards a close—If such a...

...kingdom would hardly be supposed to overlook the apostle'a account of it. The kingdom of God, he says, is " not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy GhosU"» From this statement we should expect to find the essence of it placed in things moral rather...

...the heart. An instance of this, is the frequent citing of Romans xiv. 17. — " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." From which it is argued, that since bread and wine are meat and drink, they are foreign to...

...the apostle is admirable at once for brevity, simplicity, and comprehensiveness. " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost" (Rom. sir. 17). The term " righteousness" as used in Scripture has a threefold signification...