...brotherly love ; this will serve to illustrate the excellency of the principle Have any of you, who once " purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren," again defiled your garments? Then what a fearful forfeiture have you sustained ! You have exchanged...

...Father's right hand, is assurance to us, that where he is we shall be also, John xiv. 3. Ver*. 22. Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying' the truth through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love oj 'the brethren ; see that ye love one another with a pure Jteart ferventfy. JESUS CHRIST is made...

...Peter, the believer's obedience results from " the sanctification of " the Spirit:" and he says, " Seeing ye have purified your " souls, in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto un" feigned love of the brethren." s Surely these are duties of Christianity peculiar to no age or...

...raised him from the dead, and gave him glory, " that your faith and hope might be in God. See" ing ye have purified your souls in obeying the " truth,...fervently ; being born again, " not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by " the word of God, which liveth and abideth for " ever." l They did " believe...

...abolished. In entire agreement with this, yet taking another view of the subject, the apostle Peter says, " Seeing ye have purified your souls, " in obeying the...; see that ye love " one another with a pure heart fervently." * They were active in this " purifying of their souls ;'' but it was effected by "obeying...

...which refines every social principle, and gives brotherly love its life and energy. Hence Peter says, " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently." 5. Another evidence that Christ is precious to us, is aii earnest desire, and constant...

..." righteousness, and truth." " The love of God is " shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost." " Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the...the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of " the brethren." " If ye through the Spirit do " mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live." What are we to understand...

...Peter, the believer's obedience results from " the sanctification of the " Spirit :" and he says, " Seeing ye have purified " your souls, in obeying the...truth, through the " Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren."3 Surely these are duties of Christianity peculiar to no age or place ! and the assistance...

...with the lamb, and the leopard to lie down with the kid.* Believers are said to "have purified their souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren ;" and, on that ground, are exhorted to love one another with a pure heart fervently, being born again...

...citizens, is another distinguishing character of the true citizen of heaven : " Having purified his soul in obeying the truth, through the Spirit, unto unfeigned love of the brethren, he loves them with a pure heart fervently." " Hereby," said our Lord, " shall all men know that ye...