...hurt, my wound is grievous ! bat I faid. Truly this is a grief, and I mull bear it. i Pet. iii. 13. And who is he that will harm you; if ye .be followers of that which is good ? • * viz. iff themfelvet, but much evil, i Pet. K. 1 i. Dearly beloved, 1 befeech you as ftrangers...

...wonnd is grievous: but I fai4. Truly this is a grief, and I muft bcarir. : Pet. iii. 13. And who i» ho that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ! a In themfelves, but much evil, i Pet. ii. n. Dearly beloved, I befeech you, as ftrangers and pilgrims,...

...none, but wifhes and purfues univerfal concord and happinefs ? The general maxim of the apoftle — " Who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ?" may VOL. II. ' K be be applied with peculiar propriety to the meek. This difpofition cannot fail...

...exprefiion, draws on another, and fo the injury, fpreads. Whereas, on the other hand, as the apoftle argues, who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ? If you keep a prudent care over your own eonduft with regard to others, you will generally draw the...

...Creator."—" The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous ; and his ears are open to their prayers—and who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ? But if ye fuffer for ricbtcoufnefs fake, happy are you.—It is better to fuffer. for well doing, than...

...difference between harm and injury must have appeared to the sacred writers. When St. Peter says, •* Who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that ** which is good?" 1 Pet. iii. 13. — When our Lord declares, that if believers " drink any deadly thing it shall not...

...fail in the same way, in another passage where the person of our Saviour is to be understood ; " Who will " harm you, if ye be followers of that which is " good? where it ought rather to be, "if ye be followers, (or imitators) of that good one, Christ? for the...

...their prayers : but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. 13 Exhortation to unity. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ? 14 But, and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are t/e: and be not afraid of their terror,...

...where fin is removed in its guilt and power, the greateft evils cannot harm us : 2 Pet. iii. 13. " And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ?" Difeafes, crofles, death itfelf, without it, is like a ferpent .without a fting, i Cor. xv. 55....

...(hall not b& afraid of evil tiding^; his heart is fixed, trading in the LORD. i Pet. iii. 1 3. And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ? Job iv. 7. Remember, I pray thee, Who ever perifhed, being innocent ? Or where were the righteous...