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Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man

that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts

THE RESURRECTION.

JOHN ii. 18-22.

Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign

shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple,

and in three days I will raise it up. Then said the Jews,

Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt

thou rear it up in three days? But he spake of the temple

of his body. When therefore he was risen from the dead,

his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them;

and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus

THE APOSTLES' GROWTH IN GRACE AFTER PENTECOST.

ACTS v. 41, 42.

And they departed from the presence of the council, re-

joicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for

his name.
And daily in the temple, and in every house,

they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ . 239

ST. PAUL IN PROSPECT OF DEATH.

2 TIм. iv. 6, 7, 8.

For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my de-

parture is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have

finished my course, I have kept the faith: henceforth

there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which

the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me at that day :

and not to me only, but to all them that love his ap-

THE DUTY OF CHURCHMEN WITH REFERENCE TO

POPULOUS TOWNS.

EPHESIANS V. 14.

Awake thou that sleepeth, and arise from the dead, and

Christ shall give thee light

CHURCH BUILDING A HOPEFUL AS WELL AS A NEEDFUL

PSALM Xxvii. 4.

One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after,

that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of

my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire

in his temple
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THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE.

1 PETER ii. 1-5.

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypo-

crisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, as new-born

babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may

grow thereby if so be ye have tasted that the Lord is

gracious. To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disal-

lowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious, ye

also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an

holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable

to God by Jesus Christ

MEN'S APPETITE FOR FALSE DOCTRINE.

ISAIAH XXX. 10, 11.

Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Pro-

phesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth

things, prophesy deceits: Get you out of the way, turn

aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to

cease from before us

SINS OF OMISSION.

MATTHEW xxv. 30.

Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there

shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

THE VINEYARD OF THE SLOTHFUL.

PROV. XXIV. 30-34.

I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of

the man void of understanding; and, lo, it was all grown

over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof,

and the stone wall thereof was broken down.

and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received in-

struction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little

folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come

as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed

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But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall

speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judg-

ment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by

thy words thou shalt be condemned

THE DOCTRINE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE RESPECTING THE

RICH AND POOR, AND THEIR DUTIES TO GOD, AND TO

PROVERBS Xxii. 2.

The rich and poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of

EVIL CONSEQUENCES OF THE NEGLECT OF RELIGIOUS

1 SAMUEL iii. 11—13.

And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in

Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it

shall tingle. In that day I will perform against Eli all

things which I have spoken concerning his house: when

I begin, I will also make an end. For I have told him

that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which

he knoweth because his sons made themselves vile, and

he restrained them not
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THE BENEFIT OF EARLY RELIGIOUS TRAINING.

But Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile

himself with the portion of the king's meat, nor with the

wine that he drank; therefore he requested of the prince

of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself . 505

NO WISER OR HAPPIER MAN THAN THE FAITHFUL

MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL.

PROVERBS Xi. 30.

He that winneth souls is wise

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