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...this world in his great facrifice, as the apoftle adds, "who gave himfelf for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himfelf a peculiar people, zealous of good works. "|| That "he Joved his church, and gave himfelf for it, that he might fanctify and cleanfe it with the wafhing...

...but have everlafting life. And how obvious, how forcible is the inference of the apoftle, Beloved, if GOD fo loved us, •we ought alfo to love one another *. Let us remember, that our eternal, is infeparably connected with our temporal happinefs $ for ill-will,...

...oí the great God, f and our Saviour JefusChrift, who {' gave himielf for us, that he might " redeem us from all iniquity, and '/ purify unto himfelf a peculiar " people,, zealous of good works*." So if the virtues of the primitive Chnilians did contribute, in fome meaihre, to the rapid growth of...

...loved God, but that he loved us, and fent his fon to be the propitiation for our fins." " Beloved, if God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another." But we will further confider the nature of thefe divine precepts, as productive of the higheft poflible...

...benevolence. This, he obferve*, is not chriftiaa charity which has a religious motive for its object. ' If God fo loved us, we ought alfo to love one another' (the text, i John, iv. ll.)- A motive at once rational, pure, and permanent. In pleading for the benevolent...

...-, that he might purge our confciencesfrom dead works tofer-ve the living God; that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himfelf a peculiar people zealous of good works. Such a merciful interpofition of the Creator of the world, while it illuflrioufly displays his goodnfcfs,...

...Spirit, and belief of the truth." II. ThefT. ii. 13. "Who gave himfelffor us, that fie might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himfelf a peculiar people, zealous of good works." Titus ii. 14. " According to his mercy he faved us, by the waming of regeneration, and renewing of...

...23. .j. Col. i. 5. t I Thefl*. v. 8. The Prifoner of Hope. 17 himfelf for us, that he might redeem us from all Iniquity, and purify unto himfelf a peculiar people, zealous of good works. * In every age of human life and in all the variety of circumftances \vhich attend it, Hope is our...

...diametrically the kingdom S" "I defign of the Meiiiah; "who gave himfelf for u?, that he might " redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himfelf a peculiar " people, zealous of good works," Titus ii. 14. And therefore St. Paul tells the Galatians, That that which availcth is faith; but "...