...and to cultivate those habits of holiness and temperance which " bring a man peace at the last." " Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul V • 5. The Christian is required to "take up his cross." If we range ourselves under the...

...away all those poisons that are injected by the flesh and the evil spirit. Hence St. Peter saith, " Beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,' 1 Epist. ii. 11. And St. Paul saith, " Let not sin reign in your mortal body that ye should...

...All this concurs to recommend to our most serious attention the apostolic exhortation of the text : " Dearly beloved ; I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul." With regard to the meaning and extent of the duty, here enjoined, it will...

...hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array. 2 Tim. ii. 22. Flee also youthful lusts. 1 Peter, ii. 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. iii. 3. Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing...

...Peter mentions one of singular efficacy, that is, that we are ' strangers and pilgrims' upon earth. 'Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.1 The believers to whom the apostle wrote this epistle, were ' strangers and pilgrims' in...

...people, but are now the people of God ; which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. § 2. 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...

...affectionate apostle, let the language of your lips and of your conduct to them be, ' dearly beloved, we beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.' Make them feel the earnestness of that entreaty ; the reality of that character ; the solemnity...

...into the Kingdom of God 157 SERMON XVI. ON THE HOSTILITY OF SENSUALITY TO RELIGION. 1 PETER II. 11. Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul. 168 SERMON XVII. ON THE DANGER OF MINOR OFFENCES. EPHESIANS V. 6, 7. Let...

...Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. Rom. xiii. 13, 14. Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul. 1 Pet. ii. 11. But fornication and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named...

...Lord God of our sal- >- Morning vation, c$c. } ,• o » \ Prayer. The Epistle. 1 St. 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...