...mara-tialba." And the same Apostle says to the Colossians, «.' If ye then be risen wi:h Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God ; set your affections on things which are above." When the Holy Spirit reveals to the conscience for...

...joyful season to the young who read these lines, and may they be led by the Holy Spirit to seei those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. ELIZA. ANECDOTES. WHEN Socrates was one day walking through a market, and looking at the various articles...

...taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving. Since ye have been ' raised up with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. Set your minds oh the things above, not on the things upon the earth ; for ye have died to the I It...

...ma}i be invigorated, our hope enlivened, our charity confirmed, and our affections elevated to the things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God ! The veil now thrown over this preliminary state, and concealing from our view celestial objects,...

...shadow. Oh, then, overlook all these sublunary vanities : Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth ; seek those things which are...is so, plainly ; fruitful into barren, yea into the abstract, barrenness itself. Small alterations are not noted. The growing of the grass, the daily declining...

...things which are "seen, but at those which are not seen."* " If ye " be risen with Christ, seek those things which are " above ; where Christ sitteth at the right hand of " God. Set your affections on things above ; not -" on things on the earth."f The worldly are apt to overrate...

...follow the commandment of St. Paul, that saith, " If ye then be risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God," we shall neither depart from the vain transitory goods of this world, nor from this wretched and mortal...

...affections NEW THANSLATIOH. CHAP. III. 1 (Ei, 128.) fiince then ye have been raised with Christ, seek , the things which ARE above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God. 2 (Qptwrt) Set your affections on things above, not on things ufion the earth. 3 For ye are dead :...

...but if even the faithful few who have chosen God for their portion, and whose affections are set on things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, are not exempt from the criminality of inordinate desires, — if these latter are conscious of an...

...the dead, and become the jirst fruits of them that slept, tfc." Wheatly, page a 11, Oxford edit. " which are above, where Christ sitteth at the " right hand of God. We must set our affec" tions on things above, and not on things be" neath, being dead, and having our...