...hath forgiven you. Eph. v. 1. Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children. Col. iii. 12. 13. Put on therefore (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) bowels of mercies, kindnefs, humblenefs of mind, meeknefr, hng-fufering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another,...

...Saints." ix. 25, " I will call her [the Gentile church] beloved, which was not beloved." Col. iii. 12, "Put on therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies," &c. 141. Rom. iii. 23,24, "For all have finned, and come fliort of the glory of God ; being j ufliiicd...

...29- And, accordingly, such persons are exhorted by St. Paul, Col. iii. 12, to " put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness," &c. These things become them, and are required of them, on account of their interest in...

...as the elect of God, holy and beloved, borctls of mercies, kindness, fuimbleness of mind, meekufts, long-suffering, forbearing, one another, and forgiving one another, even as Christ forgave you, 1 passionately bescegh you to read over daily your ordination vows, to examine yourself how you observe...

...other kinds of iniquity, which are to be mortified. After which he adds this beautiful exhortation ; " Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,...kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering." (iii. 12.) Many other graces he enumerates, which may be studied in that passage ; and also in various...

...circumcision nor un circumcision, Barbarian, Scydiian, bond nor free ; but Christ is all, and in all. 12 Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,...kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering ; 1 3 Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any ; even...

...crucified. Thus, in his Epistle to the Colossians, (iii. 12) St. Paul urges them ' to put on bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness,...forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.' — Where we see...

...live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world." It leads us to " put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering." It bid» us to " come out from the world, and be separate, and touch not the unclean thing." It plainly...

...— the royal law, according to the scriptures. I conclude with the exhortation, Col. iii. 12, 14. " Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering : — And above all these things, put on charity, which...

...and have put on the, new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him; put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved,...kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering," &c. Col. iii. 5 — 16. Then he turns these two men, the new and the old, into sin and grace; " Sin...