...abolished. In entire agreement with this, yet taking another view of the subject, the apostle Peter says, " Seeing ye have purified your souls, " in obeying the...; see that ye love " one another with a pure heart fervently." * They were active in this " purifying of their souls ;'' but it was effected by "obeying...

..." righteousness, and truth." " The love of God is " shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost." " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of " the brethren." " If ye through the Spirit do " mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." What are we to understand...

...Peter, the believer's obedience results from " the sanctification of the " Spirit :" and he says, " Seeing ye have purified " your souls, in obeying the...truth, through the " Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren."3 Surely these are duties of Christianity peculiar to no age or place ! and the assistance...

...beholden to him for all these three graces, which concur in the new birth ; ' God raised him [Christ] from the dead, and gave him glory, that your faith...brethren ; see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.' Can this now be the work of any but God ? Can a creature make a creature ? Or, is the new...

...also : and this is coincident with what we have considered from St. James's epistle. " Seeing that ye have " purified your souls in obeying the truth,...brethren, " see that ye love one another with a pure heart " fervently ; having been born again, l not of cor" ruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word...

...dead, and gave him glory, that yonr faith and hope might be in God. Seeing ye have purified your louls, in obeying the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned...brethren ; see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently.' Can this now be the work of any but God ? Can a creatare make a creature ? Or, is the new...

...— Titus iii. 5, 6. Eph. v. 26. Elect, &c. through sanctiftcation of the Spirit, unto obedience, &c. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, &c.— I Pet. i. 2, 22. But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things. But the anointing...

...— Titus iii. 5, 6. Eph. v. 26. Elect, &c. through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, &c. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, &c.— 1 Pet. i. 2. 22. But ye have an unction from tho Holy One; and ye know all things. But the anointing...

...heart anew, as to implant this sacred principle in the mind? What does he say to, 1 Peter i. 22? " Ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through...the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren." But he knows that the "truth," the word of God, the Holy Scriptures, have never been given them by...

...converts from among the Heathen, that " God purified their hearts by faith."1 And St. Peter says, — "seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the ' Gal. v. 22, &c. k Psal. cxix. 130. l Acts xv. 9\ brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure...