...hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Tit. iii. 3. We ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in mulicc and envy, hateful and hating one another. 1 John ii. 9. He that hatcth his brother is in darkness....

...Christian church, converts •were remarkably changed in this respect : Tit. iii. 3, &c. " For w« ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared ; he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the. Holy...

...context, which describes the state of the persons prior to their jus'-irka* tion. " For we ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving...malice and envy, hateful and hating one another." ver. 3. These sins are evidently violations o£ the moral law, and discover the wretched and helpless...

...of wrath, even as others." Eph. ii. 1, 2. " We ourselves, also," saith the apostle again to Titus, " were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." Tit. iii. 4. Well the Christian remembers the ignorance- of his mind, the enmity of his heart, the...

...free from " sin, and become the servants of God." Most of them remember the time, when they " were " foolish, disobedient, deceived; serving divers " lusts...living in malice and envy, " hateful, and hating one another:1" but " God, " who is rich in mercy, of his great love, where" with he loved them, even when...

...evidently treating of the same class, which he describes in terms wholly inapplicable to babes, — ' For we ourselves, also, were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.' When St. John writes, ' Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, — whosoever believeth that...

...free from sin, and become the servants of God." Most of them remember the time, when " they were " foolish, disobedient, deceived ; serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful, "and hating one another ;"t but "God, who is rich " in mercy, of his great love, wherewith he loved them, "even when they were...

...This love was lost at the fall. Nothing is in mankind, by nature, but selfishness. He is a slave to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Every age has felt this malady, and complained of it. But no human means have been able to remedy it....

...of no man ; be gentle, shewing all meekness to all men. For we were sometimes foolish, disobedient, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another; but after the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, he, according to his mercy, saved us...

...of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ." To Titus he writes, " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his...