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on the contrary, he heaps his favours upon you. wherefore 'tis said, "God defeats the proud, but is gracious to the humble."

Surrender therefore to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

address your selves to God, and you will find him present with you: cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, you that are diffident.

PETER an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the foreigners dispers'd thro' Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, whom God the father has chosen in pursuance of his decree,

Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has regenerated us, and given us by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the expectation of immortal life,

it is by him that you believe in God, who has raised him from the dead, and invested him with glory, that your faith and your hope might be in God.

since your regeneration is not owing to any corruptible principles, but to the unchangeable word of the immortal God.

which however rejected it is by men, is the precious stone, which God has chosen: and

you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.

of darkness into his marvellous light: you, who formerly were not a people, but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy,

and glorify God in the times of distress. be subject therefore, for the Lord's sake to every human establishment: whether it be to the king,

of God. Be respectful to all, love your brethren, fear God, and honour the king.

adore the Lord God in your hearts, and be ready to show with modesty and respect to every one that asks it, what ground there is for the expectations you have:

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,

who being ascended into heaven, is seated at the right hand of God, where angels, dominations, and potentates have been subjected to him.

for to this end was the gospel preach'd to those, who are now dead, that after having suffer'd the loss of this frail life from men, they might enjoy an immortal life with God.

as good economists of the different dispensations of God, communicate to one another the gifts you have receiv'd.

let a speaker deliver nothing but what is agreeable to the divine oracles: and let him that attends the poor, be active in proportion to the strength God has given him. amen.

if you suffer indignities in the cause of Christ, you are happy: for the glorious spirit of God rests upon you.

but whoever suffers as a christian, let him not be asham'd, but rather give thanks to God upon that account.