for you should consider how he endured such opposition from sinners against himself, lest ye be tired out, and quite despond.

If a person of an ungovernable tongue pretends to religion, he abuses himself: for his religion is meer illusion.

this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,

he himself cancel'd our sins by the crucifixion of his body, that we being set free from sin, might live in the service of virtue. it is by his bruises that you were healed:

for Jesus Christ himself has already suffer'd for our sins, the innocent for the guilty, to bring us to God: who, tho' he died with respect to his body, was rais'd to life by that spirit,

he that hath such an expectation should purify himself, even as he is pure.

and you know that he appear'd to abolish our sins; and that he was himself without sin.

for which reason, when I come, I shall animadvert upon his conduct, and the malicious aspersions he casts upon us: not contented with this, he will neither receive the brethren himself, nor suffer those who are better inclin'd, to do it; but drives them out of the church.

the beast that was, and is not, is himself the eighth: he is of the seven, and shall be destroy'd.

his eyes were as a flame of fire, on his head were many crowns: and a name inscrib'd which no one comprehended, but himself:

then I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, "behold, the tabernacle of God is with men: he will dwell with them, they shall be his people, God himself shall be with them, as their God.