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...primitive christians united in knowing and obeying the truth, whom the Apostle Peter thus addresses : " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...brethren ; see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently."t In that day the promise and prophecy spoken by Jeremiah will be accomplished to a greater...

...Scripture — Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself—ye do well. (James, ii. 8.) So also St. Peter: — Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently. (1 Pet. i. 22.) St. John declares — He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and...

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...worthy to be blamed, or ' condemned, by alledging that he sinned unwil' lingly, or by compulsion.'2—" Seeing ye have " purified your souls, in obeying the...truth, through " the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren."3 " Whereunto I also labour, striving according to " his working, which worketh in me mightily."4...

...synonymous with " regenerated," baptism must be intended. The words are found in connection as follows : " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...fervently ; being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever."f These Christians had...