| Samuel Seabury - 1815 - 320 pages
...had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained » Kev. i. 6. and r. 10. f 1 Pet u. 5. " merer. Death7 beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul," &c.* If, therefore, we sell the right to an heavenly inheritance which we obtain by the... | |
| Wesleyan Methodists services - 1817 - 278 pages
...things as arc agreeable to the same, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen, The Epistle. 1 Pet. ii. 11. 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... | |
| Joseph Priestley - 1780 - 494 pages
...apostle Peter also most earnestly and affectionately admonishes us on this subject (I Pet. ii. 11) : " Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." A man who has any belief in revelation can have no doubt about the regulation of his conduct... | |
| 1818 - 424 pages
...as are agreeable to the same,through our Lord Jesus Christ, .imen. Tlte Epistle. 1 St. Peter ii. 11. DEARLY beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which Avar against the soul ; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles ; that whereas they speak... | |
| 1819 - 488 pages
...man be in Christ, he is a new creature ; old things are past away, behold all things are become new6. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul h. Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end, for the grace... | |
| sir Adam Gordon (bart.) - 1819 - 440 pages
...Peter likewise, in his exhortation to his disciples, insists on their purity of life, I Ep. ii. 11 : Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul ; and he cautions against the effects of improper dress in assisting this vice, in these words,... | |
| 1829 - 632 pages
...declarations, in the number of which, take the following of St. Peter, 1 Epist. ii. 11. "Dearly betoved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." In what manner such "fleshly desires," as the desire for tobacco, "wars against the soul,"... | |
| Episcopal Church - 1819 - 558 pages
...same, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The Epistle. 1 St. Peter ii. 1 1. DEARLY beloved, I beseecl 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... | |
| Robert Walker, Hugh Blair - 1820 - 548 pages
...himself even as he is pure." Let us then hearken to that affectionate exhortation of the apostle Peter, " Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul." Let us '• add to our faith, virtue ; and to our virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, temperance;... | |
| Birmingham sacellum Erdingtoniense - 1821 - 644 pages
...things as are agreeable to the same, through our Lord Jesus Christ. Anien. The Epistle. 1 S. PBT. 2. 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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