...thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners,' 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10, 11. And elsewhere he says, * We ourselves ' also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, ( and hating one another,' Tit. iii. 3. And the obstinacy and perverseness of men, going on in a course of sin, is so great, that...

...thieves, covetous, drunkards, revilers, extortioners,' 1 Cor. vi. 9, 1O, 11. And elsewhere he says, * We ourselves ' also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, ' and hating one another,' Tit. iii. 3. And the obstinacy and perverseness of men, going on in a course of sin, is so great, that...

...your former imprisonment. Paul did not think himself above it. " For we ourselves also," says he, " were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." " Time was," may you say, " when I was led captive by Satan at his will : when no sooner did a temptation...

...now light in the Lord;" as having been once " dead, but now alive again;" as having been " sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another," but now " saved by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the HOLY GHOST. "t They are represented...

...xiv. 1, 3; compared with Rom. iii. 9, 18. " We ourselves also were sometimes foolish, dis" obedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and " pleasures, living...malice and envy, hateful " and hating one another." Tit. iii. 3. They who do such things are worthy of death, and likewise those who take pleasure in them...

...be contentious, no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness to all men. 3. For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, spiteful, and hating one another. 4. But when that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward...

...renouncing all dependence upon themselves, rely on divine mercy alone for pardon and salvation : — " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and the renewing...

...was "by nature born in sin;" that he, like others, was "sometime foolish, disobedient, deceived;" " but after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour...man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his great mercy, he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing...

...which we have done," does not mean only works of the ceremonial law. It appears by the third verse, " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." These are breaches of the moral law, that the apostle observes they lived in before they were justified...

...proportion, more evil than good — no proof of love in God, who is " no respecter of persons." iii. 3. " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5. Not by works of...