ON THE FIRST EPISTLE OF THE APOSTLE PETER. BY JOHN BROWN, D. D., SENIOR MINISTER OF THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CONGREGATION, BROUGHTON TO THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. EDINBURGH: ALEXANDER PADON. GLASGOW: DAVID ROBERTSON. LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, AND COMPANY. MDCCCXLVIII. CONTENTS. PART I. The duties enjoined by the Apostle, page 2. § 1. Sobriety, 2. § 2. "Watching unto prayer," 6. PART II. Motive to Sobriety and watching unto PART I. The maintenance of brotherly love, page 20. § 1. The duty explained, 20. § 2. The duty recommended, 27. PART II. The manifestation of brotherly love, 37. § 1. Christians are to manifest brotherly love by employing their property for each other's good as men, as in ungrudging hospitality, 38. § 2. Christians are to manifest brotherly love by employing their spiritual gifts for promoting one another's spiritual edification, 47. § 3. Motives to these |