...is a mere name, instead of the most solemn and sacred of all realities. But our Redeemer's disciples are not of the world, even as He is not of the world. And therefore, if you profess the faith of Christ crucified, it must be seen by your firm stand upon the...

...the simplicity of the Gospel. This will make us singular, it is true ; we shall be unlike the world, and displease the world ; but wherefore did we meet...table, but to make our solemn declaration to him, tluit we are not of the world, even as he -is not of the world 1 and how shall we dare be so unfaithful,...

...how many things they may do like the world. Whereas, seeing that Jesus has declared that His people are not of the world even as He is not of the world, they ought to inquire how far with propriety they may differ from the world, how little, consistently...

...means of life through union with him ! If he be with us in all the fulness of his grace, then are we " not of the world, even as he is not of the world." He has taken us out of the world, and brought us into his Church, " which is the blessed company of...

...they are recognized by the pleadings of Christ, who asserts in consequence of them, that his saints " are not of the world, even as he is not of the world." The Holy Spirit says to the world, " Go thy way forth in the footsteps of the flock, and imitate the...

...and found this saving grace, to what feelings of LONGING EXPECTATION should our subject give rise! We are not of the world even as He is not of the world. What excuse, then, can there be for worldly anxiety or worldly conformity ? Why should we be anxious...

...of separating to himself a peculiar people, whom he calls his flock, his disciples, his sheep ; they are not of the world even as he is not of the world. " The ungodly world is one vast confederation of evil, and the design of Christ in instituting his...

...at Christ Jesus, why they hated him, and why they hate his disciples, even as he said, Because they are not of the world, even as he is not of the world. They who take up their cross and follow Christ, reject that which is the life of the world, and are...

...He had a higher, and better, and more glorious inheritance. They can live and act in character, and are " not of the world, even as He is not of the world." I would have my hearers look well to this point. When did Jesus, while on earth, pursue matters of...

...to propagate an earthly offspring; and the same is equally true of his followers also: for " if they are not of the world, even as he is not of the " world," they can have no more to do with its works of generation than he had; because that work belongs solely...