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PART SIXTH.

A SPECIAL CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN DUTIESAND VIRTUES, OF A CHARACTER PECULIARLYCHRISTIAN; AND A SIMILAR CONSIDERATIONOF CERTAIN VICES AND EVILS.

Not only the gross sensual vices, some of which cannot evenbe named without shocking the ears of a Christian,* but hatred,variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings,murders, drunkenness, revellings, idolatry, deceit, malignity,backbiting, hating of God, pride, vain-glory, hypocrisy, uncharit-ableness, invention of evil things, disobedience to parents, cove-nant-breaking, implacability, want of understanding, want of com-passion, covetousness, absence of natural affection, and the like,are ascribed, in Holy Writ, to the flesh lusting against thespirit, and are denounced as damnable vices, which will excludethose who practise them from all hope of the kingdom of God.fOn the other hand, love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,goodness, faith, meekness, temperance, are called the fruit ofthe Spirit, and are ascribed to the influence of the Holy Spirit ofGod. | Giving all diligence, we are required to add to ourfaith, virtue ; and to our virtue, knowledge ; and to knowledge,temperance ; and to temperance, patience; and to patience,godliness ; and to godliness, brotherly kindness ; and to brotherlykindness, charity.§ Christians, as the elect of God, are toput on bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meek-ness, long-suffering; forbearing one another, and forgiving oneanother, if any man have a quarrel against any. And, above allthese things, they are to put on charity, which is the bond ofperfectness. [|

* X Corinthians v. 1. t Romans i. 29-31; Gal. v. 17-21.

t Galatians v. 22. § 2 Peter i. 5-7. || Colossians iii. 12-14.