 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - 1877 - 964 pages
...eternal life ; and the violation of every one of thc.se commands is declared to be sin. We are commanded to be 'perfect even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect' (Matt. v. 48.); and, so far from being able to exceed what is required for our salvation,... | |
 | 1879 - 556 pages
...ideal, we all feel, is an outpouring of love upon the just and the unjust. It aims at nothing less than to be "perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect." As He makes His sun to shine upon the just and the unjust, and sends rain upon the unthankful... | |
 | 1879 - 446 pages
...coals of fire on his head." Thus feeling and acting towards others, enemies as well as friends, we are to be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect ; a perfection not of equality, but a miniature resemblance. Another mark of perfection is... | |
 | Richard Johnstone - 1881 - 194 pages
...desire and fulfil all our minds. CHRISTIAN PERFECTION. IN His Sermon on the Mount, our Lord tells us to be perfect, even as our Father which is in Heaven is perfect. This seems a strange command to give to men who are born in sin, and who never are and never... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - 1881 - 488 pages
...desire or deserve, and thus enabling our Lord to appeal to us by this Divine example, and to exhort us to be perfect even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect? If it could be conceived possible that one of ourselves should ask the whole devotion of another... | |
 | George Salmon - 1881 - 352 pages
...whose character the more closely we study, and the more thoroughly we love, the more nearly we approach to be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect. The contemplation of such an example, and the contrast with what you know yourselves to be,... | |
 | John Henry Smithson - 1883 - 248 pages
...with what it could not be filled with. " In reply to this I will only state, that the Lord commands us to be " perfect, even as our Father, which is in heaven, is perfect " (Matt. v. 48) ; and "to be holy, even as He is holy." But this we can never 105 become, because... | |
 | John Keble - 1883 - 152 pages
...and way which no thought of ours can reach : and that always for ever and ever : and yet we are bid to be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect. Not as though we could come up to Him : no one is so senseless as to imagine that : but as... | |
 | John Thain Davidson - 1885 - 304 pages
...term, though we are to strive after this as the goal. No meaner standard are we to set before us, than to " be perfect, even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect." But, if our own experience and observations do not tell us, all Scripture does, that " there... | |
 | Edward Thring - 1886 - 494 pages
...natural and true development of life in the Kingdom of God. amongst those who strive from the beginning to be'. perfect even as our Father which is in heaven is perfect. And a far-off image of this takes place every Term in this School. Those, who when they come... | |
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perfect even as our Father which is in Heaven is perfect. 
