...malefactoribus, ex bonis operibus vosr considerantes, glorificeat Deum. Having your conversation good among the Gentiles ; that whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by the good works which they shall behold in yon, glorify God. 1. PETER, chap. ii. ver. 12. IT is upon...

...as are agreeable to the same ; through our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. The Epistle. 1 St. Peter ii. 11. DEARLY beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lasts, which war against the soul ; having your conversation honest among the Gentiles ; that, whereas...

...and to cultivate those habits of holiness and temperance which " bring a man peace at the last." " Dearly beloved, I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul V • 5. The Christian is required to "take up his cross." If we range ourselves under the...

...away all those poisons that are injected by the flesh and the evil spirit. Hence St. Peter saith, " Beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,' 1 Epist. ii. 11. And St. Paul saith, " Let not sin reign in your mortal body that ye should...

...may see their good works, and glorify their Father which is in heaven: or as Peter expresses it, — "Having your conversation honest among the gentiles; that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation."...

...All this concurs to recommend to our most serious attention the apostolic exhortation of the text : " Dearly beloved ; I beseech you, as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts that war against the soul." With regard to the meaning and extent of the duty, here enjoined, it will...

...the Primitive Christians suffered much reproach on this account. St. Pete)' exhorts them thus: ' Have your conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil. doers, they may glorify God by your good works, which they shall behold ; for it is his will,...

...in your abominations; Matt. xxv. 42, 43. [2.] The conversion of others. 1 Pet. ii. 12. ' Havingyour conversation honest among the Gentiles, that whereas they speak against you as evil doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.'...

...they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them. с 1 Peter ii. 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles...speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good v;orks which the)' shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. IK!- d Mai. ii. 2. If ye will...

...Peter mentions one of singular efficacy, that is, that we are ' strangers and pilgrims' upon earth. 'Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul.1 The believers to whom the apostle wrote this epistle, were ' strangers and pilgrims' in...