...cultivation of a loving and peaceful temper is enjoined upon Christians. " Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel...

...And Prov. xiv. 31. " He that honoureth the Lord, hath mercy on the poor." And Col. iii. 12. " Put ye on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies," &c. This is one of those great things by which those who are truly blessed are described by our Saviour,...

...Calvinist, Quaker, Methodist or Unitarian, " but Christ is all and in all. Put on, therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering ; — and, above all these things, put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness."...

...power, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Epistle. COL. 3. 12. PUT on therefore (as the elect of God, holy and beloved) bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel...

...ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John xiii. 34. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; — even as Christ forgave yon, so also do ye. Col. iii. 12. As we have borne...

...of Christ. In his behaviour, in his conversation he shewed, that he had put on as one of the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, long suffering, ready to bear with others, and ready to forgive, as Christ had also freely forgiven...

...lame be turned out of the way." (Heb. xii. 12, 13, 15.) Have they given us offence ? It teaches us to " put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel...

...contradictory to what the Christian Religion enjoins. So writes St. Paul to the Colossians, ch. iii. 12, 13, " Put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long suffering, forbearing one apothcr, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel...

...temper, or embitter your spirits. Put ou therefore, among the ornaments of your youth, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness and long-suffering. Your age is made for love ; let holy love, therefore, be a law to you. Sixthly, \ou...

...regard to the peace of the church, the reputation of religion, and the success of the Gospel, that you put on, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, and gentleness, humbleness of mind, meekness and long suffering ; that you will forlear one another...