but whenever you fast, anoint your head, and wash your face:

for it is he that is meant in that passage, "behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee."

and was transfigured before them; his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

and when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were in a terrible fright.

then they spit in his face, some beat him on the head, others slapt him on the cheeks,

It is written in the prophet, "behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee.

then some began to spit on him, others cover'd his face and struck him on the head, crying out, divine, who it is. and the domestics slapt him on the cheeks.

insult him, spit in his face, scourge him, and put him to death; and the third day he shall rise again.

but one of the servants seeing him by the fire, star'd him in the face, and said, this man was with him too.

they made him blind-fold, they slapt him on the face, and cry'd out, divine who it was that smote thee.

and he that was dead came forth, his body wrapt in a winding sheet: and his face bound about with a napkin. loose him, said Jesus, and let him go.

Upon his expressing himself thus, one of the officers there present, struck Jesus on the face, saying, answerest thou the high priest so?

and now I am persuaded you will none of you see my face any more: whilst I have been among you, I have proclaim'd the kingdom of the Messias:

being more particularly afflicted at his having said, "they should see his face no more." and then they conducted him to the ship.

at which the high priest Ananias order'd those that were near him to strike him on the face:

(I allude to civil affairs, because of your unacquaintedness with spiritual matters:) as then you made your natural faculties subservient to impurity, and all manner of vice; make them now subservient to virtue and holiness.

rulers are not a terror to virtue, but to vice. would you then live without any dread of the civil power? do what is right, and you shall have his commendation.

the secrets of his heart become manifest; and so falling down on his face, he will worship God, and declare that God is certainly amongst you.

now if the law engraven on stone, the letter of whose sanction is death, was delivered with such glory, that the children of Israel could not steadily behold the face of Moses, for the glory of his countenance, tho' it was transient;

and do not act as Moses did, who threw a veil over his face so as to hinder the children of Israel from perceiving the end of that which was to cease:

Are you not become associates with infidels? but what affinity is there between virtue and vice? and what communication has light with darkness?

But when Peter came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, for he was to be blamed.

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

according as he had chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy, free from vice, and devoted to virtue.

and be not accomplices in the fruitless practices of vice; on the contrary, condemn them.

it being plain, that the law was not design'd against the just, but against the lawless and refractory, against irreligion and vice, impiety and prophaneness, parricide and man-slaughter,

virtue wears no disguise, and vice cannot be long conceal'd.

he that is clear of vice, is a vessel of the first kind, sanctified and fit for the master's use, and qualified for every virtuous action.

where false zeal, and a spirit of contention reign, there confusion and every vice prevail.

Degenerate race, don't you know that friendship with vice is hostility against heaven. he that is a friend to the vicious world, is an enemy to God.

or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"

men. You are free, don't let your liberty serve as a pretext for vice: but act as the servants

he must avoid vice, practise virtue, seek peace, and persevere in the enquiry.

their eyes are inflam'd with adultery, and unextinguishable vice: they insnare the souls of the inconstant. their minds are practis'd in the arts of avarice: an execrable race, who have deserted the right way,

my beloved, don't imitate vice, but virtue. he that does good, is a child of God: he that does evil, is not acquainted with God.

"fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the lamb:

Then I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, invested with a cloud, a rainbow was upon his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire.

they shall see his face; and his name shall be. in their foreheads.