...describe the essential nature of true religion, personally considered, and that thus " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost : " let this ground be taken, and it necessarily, undeniably, follows, that as it is the duty...

...kingdom would hardly be supposed to overlook the Apostle's account of it. The kingdom of God, he says, is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. From this statement we should expect to find the essence of it placed in things moral rather...

...of this nature. It is remarkable, that the Apostle, after representing the kingdom of God as being not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit, adds, for lie that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and aproved of men....

...because it relinquished some of the lawful agreeables of life ? Assuredly not. " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost ;" and this was its heritage. * Corbet was a wit, and by no means confined his witticisms to...

...Holy Ghost :" but the outward supper is meat and drink, and therefore not of the kingdom of God, which is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. And this was made use of by Christ, in the state of humiliation, before his death, and the pouring...

...How weak, alas, is man. A peace of three years has set the church in a flame. How soon do we forget that " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." • With what difficulty is the real love of Jesus, and the fruits of it preserved in the church....

...great Father of mercies and his regenerate obedient child ; and he experiences to his consolation, that " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost ;" " and blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled."...

...How weak, alas, is man. A peace of three years has set the church in a flame. How soon do we forget that " the kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." With what difficulty is the real love of Jesus, and the fruits of it preserved in the church....

...molestation. — April 3d, he arrived in London, and preached at the Foundery, on, " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." He observes, " My heart was enlarged in' prayer for the Infant Society." May 2d, Mr. C. Wesley...

...Having the form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." " The kingdom of God is not meat and drink ; but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." It does not consist in attending divine ordinances. " This people honoureth me with their lips,...