...wise, they became fools.' And again, he calls upon the converts to the truth to ' walk henceforth not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,...is in them, because of the blindness of their heart 5 .' To such an extent were they misled by the delusions under which they laboured, that they mistook...

...we have to do. Under no restraint of moral or religious obligations, they walk, as the Apostle says, in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding...is in them, because of the blindness of their heart ; and, being past feeling, they have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness...

...religion and morals? We have it strikingly described by the great apostle of the Gentiles. "They walked in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding...in them, because of the blindness of their heart: and being past feeling, they had given themselves over unto-lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness...

...from the evil nature of their hearts. This the Apostle expressly asserts in the fourth of Ephesians, " Having the understanding darkened, being alienated...in them, because of the blindness of their heart.'' The evil heart of sinners never fails to darken their understanding;, and all their intellectual powers,in...

...testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18. having the understanding darkened, being alienated...in them, because of the blindness of their heart; 19. who being past feeling (o), have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all unclean...

...absurd doctrine which has now been considered. In the following scripture, you have an answer.— " Having the understanding darkened, being alienated...in them, because of the blindness of their heart." A. LIBERTY AND NECESSITY. £We insert the following, with a desire and expectation that some of our...

...ju«7«i»7>;?, is used twice more in the New Testament; Eph. iv. 17, " That ye henceforth walk, not as other gentiles walk in the -vanity of their mind,...understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God," &c.; and 2 Pet. ii. 18, "For when they speak great swelling words of vanity.'''' In these...

...are called, Eph. iv. 1. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,...is in them, because of the blindness of their heart : Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto laeciviousness, to werk all uncleanness with...

...and testify in the Lord," adds the apostle, " that ye, henceforth, walk not as other Gentiles walkg in the vanity of their mind: Having the understanding...in them, because of the blindness of their heart.'" In these words, the apostle clearly teaches, that the renewed Gentiles hid a discerning of religious...

...the face of the deep." The Gentile world, previous to the revelation of the grace of God, " walked in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding...in them, because of the blindness of their heart;" they were " past feeling." I can conceive of no image of the natural state of man, independant of Divine...