A practical commentary on the first Epistle of st. Peter, abridged by C. Bradley |
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... conversation ; but with the most , a name and a form of godliness are all they have for religion . Alas ! we speak of holiness , and we hear of it , and it may be we commend it , but we act it not ; or , if we do , it is but an acting ...
... conversation ; but with the most , a name and a form of godliness are all they have for religion . Alas ! we speak of holiness , and we hear of it , and it may be we commend it , but we act it not ; or , if we do , it is but an acting ...
Page 101
... conversation , fleeing sin and the occasions of sin and temptations to it , and resisting them when they make an assault , is as a watch or guard that keeps out the enemies and disturbers of the soul , and so preserves its inward peace ...
... conversation , fleeing sin and the occasions of sin and temptations to it , and resisting them when they make an assault , is as a watch or guard that keeps out the enemies and disturbers of the soul , and so preserves its inward peace ...
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... conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; 19. But with the precious blood of Christ , as of a lamb without blemish and without spot ... IT is impossible for a Christian to conform to the world's ungodliness , unless he ...
... conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; 19. But with the precious blood of Christ , as of a lamb without blemish and without spot ... IT is impossible for a Christian to conform to the world's ungodliness , unless he ...
Page 108
... conversation , received by tra- dition from their fathers . By this I conceive is to be understood not only the superstitions and vain devices in religion , which abounded amongst the Jews by tradition , for which our Saviour often ...
... conversation , received by tra- dition from their fathers . By this I conceive is to be understood not only the superstitions and vain devices in religion , which abounded amongst the Jews by tradition , for which our Saviour often ...
Page 109
... conversation , by what authority and example soever recommended to us . The apostle's reasons in these words are strong and pressing . There is one expressed in the very name he gives it ; it is vain conversation ... The mind of man ...
... conversation , by what authority and example soever recommended to us . The apostle's reasons in these words are strong and pressing . There is one expressed in the very name he gives it ; it is vain conversation ... The mind of man ...
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Page 328 - For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: " let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Page 65 - Whom having not seen, ye love : in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory : 9 Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Page 499 - If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God ; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth : that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ; to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Page 399 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit...
Page 517 - For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God : and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God ? 18 And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?
Page 539 - Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility, for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Page 250 - For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
Page 137 - For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away : but the Word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the Word which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Page 73 - Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous : and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.
Page 41 - And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that he hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written in the second Psalm, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee.