...he has the virtue of passive obedience, and a blind acquiescence. In short, instead of manifesting the fruits of the Spirit, which are love, joy, peace,...gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, with the crucifixion of the fleshly lusts; they manifest too evidently the works of the flesh, such...

...between the state of the disciples of Jesus, in this present world, where, though spiritual life, and the fruits of the spirit, which are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith, are enjoyed, yet there are many sufferings; such as persecutions for the sake of the word,...

...state of the disciples of Jesus, in UiiPpresent world, where, though spiritual life, and the fruils of the spirit, which are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, and faith, are enjoyed, yet there are many sufferings ; such as persecutions for the sake of the word,...

...care, be admitted, or let the temper and conduct induced by them, be supposed at variance with those fruits of the Spirit, which are love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, brotherly kindness, and the like, and how easy is it to admit the position of the text, that...

...forming of Christ in them, with the dews of Grace, and the gifts and emanations of the Holy Ghost : which are Love, Joy, Peace, Long Suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance. Gal. v. 22, &c. When the Spirit of Christ bloweth thus upon us, and the dews of Grace are poured into...

...received. Their tempers are still unsubdued, unsoftened, unsanctified : their conversation produces not the fruits of the Spirit, which are love, joy, peace,...gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. But the word of God is practical; every truth is declared to accomplish some purpose. If it reveals...

...into their houses, and take up his abode in the hearts of parents and children, and that the fruils of the Spirit, which are "love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance," may grow and ripen in every family. Oh pray, even from this hour pray, pray without...

...treatment recommended by different persons, and different parties. It may, however, be laid down as 2* a sound maxim, that in proportion as the truth of...the opposite. And as the imperfections of our nature mingle with every thing which we touch, so piety itself is not exempt from the influence of the tendency...

...are led by it, there is liberty, and the fruits of the holy spirit of God will show themselves forth, which are, ' love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, righteousness and truth, proving what is acceptable unto the Lord;' against such there is no law. Gal....

...affections. It is the Spirit of God crowning the work of grace with His own ripe and peculiar fruits, which are " love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance." It is, in a word, the gospel kingdom established in the heart : that kingdom which is "righteousness,...