...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...