| James Macknight - 1810 - 594 pages
...the peculiar characteristic of the state of the Gentiles, Acts xxvi. 18. To open 11 Dearly bcjoved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul : 12 Having your ronversutioh honest among the (ientiles; that, whereas they speak aguinst... | |
| 1810 - 612 pages
...darkness into his marvellous light. Then he thus addresses the follow ITS of Christ ; Dearly beloved,! beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul, and have your conversation honest among the gentiles, that whereas they speak against you... | |
| Benjamin Seth Youngs - 1810 - 672 pages
...For this is the will of God, even your sancliiication, that ye should abstain from fornication." 5. " Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts. — Forbidding to marry, to abstain from meats, 8cc." Here the of these hypocrites is directly contracted... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1811 - 476 pages
...to the worms. * Sdly, It may be a mighty check upon sensuality and flesh!y lusts, 1 Pet. ii. 11. " I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." It is hard to cause wet wood take fire ; and wheT the fire doth take hold of it, it is soon... | |
| Thomas Boston - 1811 - 472 pages
...feast to the worms. Sdly, It may be a mighty check upon sensuality and fleshly lusts, 1 Pet. ii. 1 1. "I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." It is hard to cause wet wood take fire ; and when the fire doth take hold of it, it is soon... | |
| Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1813 - 462 pages
...power of this motive, as strangers and pilgrims, and to press home this exhortation of the apostle, " Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." 1. In order to understand the nature of the passions, we will explain the subject by a few... | |
| 1833 - 638 pages
...saith, " Be not drunk with wine wherein is excess, but be filled with the Spirit ;" and another, " Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul ; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you... | |
| J S. Pipe - 1813 - 646 pages
...cautions given and the observations made to the first christians : thus, St. Peter in his first epistle, " Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul." And lest we should be too closely attached tQ this world, and forget our true character,... | |
| 1813 - 580 pages
...these are contrary the one to the other; so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 1 Pet. ii. 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusis, which war against the soul. III. i Rom. vii. 23. But I see another law in my members warring... | |
| Church of England - 1815 - 450 pages
...things as are agreeable to the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The Epistle. 1 St. Peter ii. 1 1. DEARLY beloved, I beseech you as strangers and...pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul ; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles ; that, whereas they speak against you... | |
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