...were formerly foolish, disobedient, wandering from the paths of truth and virtue, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one anothA er. But when the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards 5 man appeared, not by works of...

...Christian church, converts •were remarkably changed in this respect : Tit. iii. 3, &c. " For w« ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...another. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour towards man appeared ; he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the. Holy...

...of wrath, even as others." Eph. ii. 1, 2. " We ourselves, also," saith the apostle again to Titus, " were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another." Tit. iii. 4. Well the Christian remembers the ignorance- of his mind, the enmity of his heart, the...

...context, which describes the state of the persons prior to their jus'-irka* tion. " For we ourselves were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving...malice and envy, hateful and hating one another." ver. 3. These sins are evidently violations o£ the moral law, and discover the wretched and helpless...

...free from " sin, and become the servants of God." Most of them remember the time, when they " were " foolish, disobedient, deceived; serving divers " lusts...living in malice and envy, " hateful, and hating one another:1" but " God, " who is rich in mercy, of his great love, where" with he loved them, even when...

...times of the Christian church, converts were remarkably changed in this respect : Tit. iii. 3, 8cc. " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...deceived, serving divers lusts- and pleasures, living iu malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. But after that the kindness and love of God our...

...does not mean works of the ceremonial law only, viz. what is said by the Apostle in Tit. iii. 3 7. " For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost ; which he shed en us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour: That, being justified by his grace, we should be...

...evidently treating of the same class, which he describes in terms wholly inapplicable to babes, — ' For we ourselves, also, were sometimes foolish, disobedient,...malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.' When St. John writes, ' Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, — whosoever believeth that...

...free from sin, and become the servants of God." Most of them remember the time, when " they were " foolish, disobedient, deceived ; serving divers lusts...malice and envy, hateful, "and hating one another ;"t but "God, who is rich " in mercy, of his great love, wherewith he loved them, "even when they were...

...This love was lost at the fall. Nothing is in mankind, by nature, but selfishness. He is a slave to divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. Every age has felt this malady, and complained of it. But no human means have been able to remedy it....