 | George Beecher - 1844 - 356 pàgines
...conflict. It ought not so to be. VIEWS ON CHRISTIAN PERFECTION. II. " BE ye holy, for I am holy." " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." These two passages show that God requires of us perfect holiness. By many, it seems to be taken for... | |
 | William Evans, Thomas Evans - 1846 - 496 pàgines
...closcth that chapter of his excellent and most moral doctrine, with this preceptory exhortation, ' Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect.' Such therefore who are perfected, through the eternal Word who preached this doctrine, shall be settled... | |
 | Samuel Horatio Stearns - 1846 - 282 pàgines
...wantonness, — the abuse of a promise as the breach of an oath, — and adds, with solemn authority, " Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Reason also assents to the propriety of the injunction. A perfect law can do no less than require perfect... | |
 | 1848 - 614 pàgines
...perfection and holiness is prescribed to us in the Word of God. It is true that our Saviour said, " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." But these words are to be interpreted in harmony with their context. Christ had been enjoining upon... | |
 | 206 pàgines
...children of your Father which is in heaven ; for he sendeth rain upon the just and the unjust, &c. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Who cannot see, that the perfection which Christ preached, is a perfection of holy dispositions, productive... | |
 | Robert Hall - 1849 - 702 pàgines
...maketh his sun to shine on the evil and on thf, good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." Accordingly, the Apostle John has given us a most sublime description of the love of God, when he says,... | |
 | Nathan Welby Fiske - 1850 - 414 pàgines
...My brethren, we must be like him. "If any man hath not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his" "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, who is in heaven, is perfect." SERMON V. IRRELIGION NOT OWING TO WANT OF EVIDENCE. NAY, FATHER ABRAHAM. BUT IF ONE WENT UNTO THEM... | |
 | Henry Christmas - 1850 - 288 pàgines
...develop the spiritual character of the Son of Man, and to teach us to fulfill the great command, " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." On this account was it that when the dispensation which was given to the Jews by Moses was promulgated,... | |
 | 1850 - 790 pàgines
...presence of Queen Dowager Adelaide, during one of the last years of her life, to the passage, — "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect." One of her circle said, that " it was a text full of difficulties: it urged a state impossible M be... | |
 | Heman Humphrey - 1850 - 414 pàgines
...My brethren, we must be like him. "If any man hath notthe spirit of Christ, he is none of his " " Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father, who is in heaven, is perfect." SERMON V. IRRELIGION NOT OWING TO WANT OF EVIDENCE. NAY, FATHER ABRAHAM. BUT IF ONE WENT UNTO THEM... | |
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Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father who is in heaven is perfect. 
