...there is always some failing in our believing till believing is ended, and seeing comes in its room : As ye have therefore received Christ- Jesus the Lord,...been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving, Col. ii. 6, 7. Wherein observe the variety of expressions concerning faith. 1. There is Receiving....

...absence. But the anxiety which, on various occasions, he felt from hit uncertainty as to the affairs of 7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the...been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. 8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, f . ... ,. after the tradition...

...a believer to find himself guarded from all attempts against him in his way to heaven I As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him; rooted and built up in him, Col. ii. 6, 7. Fix your root in him, ;md draw your fruit from him. 2. Is Christ a living way to heaven...

...those who corrupt the word of God. If you have received Christ Jesus the Lord in his true character, so walk ye in him ; rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith." Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God : he that abideth...

...man •poil you, through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ; " For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily." The meaning of which passage we conceive to be this : Beware of vain theorists...

...Son ofGod,Ga\. ii. 20. 4. It is by faith that believers go on com. fortably in their christian race ; As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him, 2 Cor. v. 7. go on i believing in him till ye receive the end of your faith, the sal. vation of your...

...any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, afver the rudiments of the world, and not after CHRIST : for IN HIM DWELLETH ALL THE FULLNESS of the GODHEAD BODILY. The Apostle foresaw, that a thing calling itself Philosophy would set...

...ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col. ii. 6, ?. SERMON X. The principles upon which people waver in the faith. A conceit of our capacity...

...revealed to us by the Spirit, and how our hearts were opened to receive him. Well, the Apostle says, As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord,...been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Col. ii. 6, 7. This he enjoins as a preservative from that false philosophy and vain deceit, by which...

...necessary that he might present them perfect in Christ Jesus. Hence he says, in the b'th and 7th verses, As ye have, therefore, received Christ Jesus the Lord,...the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein -uith thanksgivings.' Between Christian principle and practice, there is an inseparable connexion;...