...life.' Then, said I, you do not hold with the doctrine of OUT Lord and his apostles ; our Lord says, ' Be ye perfect eve.n as your Father in heaven is perfect,' and the apostle says, 'The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin.' When are we to be made perfect ? '...

...Spirit of the Lord straitened ? Has he changed ? Nay, our pattern and our standard are even higher: " Be ye perfect, even' as your Father in heaven is perfect ; " and Christ himself — not the highest mortal virtue — is our example. The defect is, that we do not...

...heedless of all men's self-flatteries, as if another perfection were required of men, does ever say, " Be ye perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect," and, "As he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." The grand error...

...assimilated to His 75 image, and the more successful shall we be in whatever our hand findeth to do. "Be ye perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect :" and nothing is more Godlike, than for a Legislator to deal with the criminal population of a country, as...

...me very thankful that as a boy I never experienced it. I felt very early the force of the words, ' Be ye perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect,' and as a teacher, or friend, or counsellor of youth, I would hold forth no other motive to exertion than...

...life >'f mine so long, for I disc-era well enough that nobody will have gust to loot upon a thing so very wicked. Again ! Can this first sentence be other...It is here a comparison of one man with all others oi whom he has known or heard ; — ergo, a matter of experience ; and in this sense it is impossible,...

...the supreme object of their ambition. Hence Christ's exhortation to hia disciples in all ages is, " be ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect;" and hence the substance of Paul's exhortation to the Corinthians was, " finally, brethren, be perfect."...

...truth as in their heart," and to " speak the truth in love ? " As the command, also, to them all is, " be ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect," and " it is impossible for God to lie," or to tolerate any thing that partakes of the nature of falsehood...

...Christianity ? Our commission is to seek to be perfect, to strive to be perfect ; nay, the command is, " Be ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect ;" and already, justified by Christ's righteousness, we are in that respect perfect ; washed in his blood,...

...all, to imitate his virtues, must be impossible. Tet we are commanded to do so ; and Christ said, " Be ye perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." And if we may not hope to reach that high standard thus set before us by Him who " knows whereof we are...