 | Joseph Lathrop - 1801 - 624 pages
...curfe you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who defpitefully ufe and perfecute you — be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven, is perfect." 4. We muft endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in tke bond of peace, It is not unity of opinion,... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1804 - 442 pages
...can serve two masters, Matt. vi. 24. Doth Satan urge the impossibility of perfection ? It is written, Be ye perfect as your father, who is in heaven, is perfect, chap. v. 48. 2. There is a difference between those who preach the maxims of Jesus Christ, and those... | |
 | John Wesley - 1811 - 468 pages
...obedience to those commands, " Be ye merciful, as God is merciful: Be ye holy, as I the Lord am holy: Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." 2. Who then are ye that are thus born of God? Ye " know the things which are given to you of God."... | |
 | Thomas Cogan - 1813 - 606 pages
...attribute to the utmost in our power, is the only method in which we can attempt to obey the commands of our Saviour, " be ye perfect, as your father who is in heaven is perfect." When it is asserted that the Deity is independent of his creatures for happiness, and when his felicity... | |
 | John Murray - 1813 - 438 pages
...Be ye hoiij as God is holy. Be ye perfect as, as whom ? As Moses, as Peter, as John ? No, no ; but be ye perfect as your Father who is in heaven, is perfect. Nothing short of the holiness of God, can gain us admittance into that state, where nothing that defileth... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 416 pages
...with those of riper age ; and the duties of riper age will not dispense with those of retiring life. Be ye perfect as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, Malt, v.^48. This is the command of Jesus Christ. Be perfect, 2 Cor. xiii. 11. This is the precept... | |
 | Hannah More - 1815 - 380 pages
...writings of St. Paul, not only has not always the exact meaning which we assign to it, but has different meanings, according to the occasion on which it is...expresses the aim rather than the acquisition, as in that injxmction of our Saviour — " Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Sometimes... | |
 | Hannah More - 1818 - 352 pages
...writings of St. Paul, not only has not always the exact meaning which we assign to it, but has different meanings, according to the occasion on which it is...in Paul's direction to Timothy, — ' that the man ot God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.' Often it means nearly the same with... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1824 - 500 pages
...can bring all these things more decidedly to the point, than what our Lord says in the same sermon, "Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." It is a dangerous business, to preach up a doctrine that has such a direct tendency to teach us to... | |
 | Rowland Hill - 1825 - 330 pages
...can bring all these things more decidedly to the point, than what our Lord says in the same sermon, " Be ye perfect as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." It is a dangerous business, to preach up a doctrine that has such a direct tendency to teach us to... | |
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It should seem, that the term' perfect,' as well in other parts of Scripture as in the writings of St. Paul, not only has not always the exact meaning which we assign to it, but has different meanings, according to the occasion on which it is employed.... 
