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to all the commandments, by showing that they extend to the heart. p. 119, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. The law covers the senses; for first, it is by the means of some of the senses, at least, that it reaches the mind. Again, men sin with their senses; and with their senses men should keep the law. Again, those senses which group around the appetites are regulated by that portion of the law that governs the appetites, viz., the seventh commandment. That this commandment has to do with our eating and drinking is not only seen by reflecting on the bearing that eating and drinking has on the passions, but also by reading Heb. xii, 16: "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright." p. 119, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. Sanctification requires that we exercise our working faculties; so does the fourth commandment. "Thy work," which is specified in the fourth commandment, must include, at least, sufficient physical exercise to promote health. p. 119, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. Sanctification relates to the life, and makes it obligatory upon us to care for our lives and health, that we may employ them to the glory of God; so does the law of God. This law may be called the law of life, not merely from the consideration that life is bestowed for keeping it, but also because it is so adapted to the wants of our natures, that by keeping it we will, as a natural consequence, live longer than we would by breaking it. Let the reader read each of the ten commandments with reference to this point, and see if our assertion is not correct. But the sixth commandment, in particular, regulates our course with regard to preserving life and health. It is one of the negative precepts, and not only prohibits the sin of destroying our lives, and the lives of others, but it includes the injunction of the contrary duty, viz.: to make use of all proper and available means to ameliorate and preserve health, and prolong our existence and the existence of others. p. 120, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. That the law governs our tongues not only appears from the third and ninth commandments, but also from testimonies on the law in the New Testament. The first testimony that we will notice is James ii, 12: "So speak ye and so do as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty." The law that the apostle here alludes to, is that law which said, "Do
not commit adultery. Do not kill." Verse 11, in connection with marginal reading. The fact that we are to be judged by this law is the grand motive that should lead us to take heed how we speak and act; therefore this law must determine how we should speak and how we should not speak. p. 120, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. Again, James iv, 11: "Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one law-giver who is able to save and to destroy; who art thou that judgest another?" It is evident from this passage that he that speaks evil of his brother and judges his brother (accordingly, of course), not only violates the law, but virtually sets himself as a judge of the law, and a lawgiver by approving what the law disapproves. But "there is but one lawgiver," etc. French Trans. p. 120, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. 1 Pet. iv, 11: "If any man speak, let him speak as the oracles of God." By reference to verses 7 and 17, it is seen that this text applies when the end of all things is at hand, and the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God. At this time the duty to speak as the oracles or commandments of God (see Acts vii, 38; Rom. iii, 2), is made particularly forcible by the fact that light is shining on the commandments, and they are better understood. If we speak according to these commandments, we shall speak right words with respect to God and our and concerning all that pertains to them. p. 121, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. Sanctification has to do with the affections, and requires us to love God supremely, and our neighbor as ourselves; and so with the law of God. We cannot keep the first four commandments as they should be kept, without loving God supremely; neither can we keep the last six commandments without loving our neighbor as ourselves. And we cannot love God as we should without loving what God loves and hating what God hates (as far as our knowledge extends); and if we love what God loves and hate what God hates, we will love all righteousness and hate all sin. p. 121, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. Bodily cleanliness is a duty enjoined in sanctification; and of the seventh commandment Mr. Dobney, who appears to
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into subjection to the will of God,
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Christ, let us go on to perfection;
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as holy, sanctified, perfect, and s
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When John the Baptist was preaching
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worship of the beast (papacy). By t
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Again, those parts which should be
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By it we appropriate to ourselves t
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can feast, and of which they can in
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future state given by Mahomet; also
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on just and reasonable motives, on
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in God's word? Consistent persons a
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doctrine. This was the case with an
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e dearer to us than life, and we sh
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works cannot be wrought and brought
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the senses; and Christians cannot k
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But we are to cleanse ourselves fro
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As God does nothing in vain, it is
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Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. The great apos
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