The Resurrection And I look for the re- At whose [Christ's] coming, all men shall rise again with their bodies, and shall of the body; give account for their own works.

2 Thess. iii. 16, 18; Rom. xvi. 24; 1 Cor. xvi. 23; Heb. i. 6; Phil. ii. 9-11; Eph. i. 20, 21; 1 Pet. iii. 22; Rev.v.8-13. Luke xi. 13; Ps. cxix. 18, 27, 64, exliii. 8, 10; Rom. viii. 13, 14; Gal. v. 25; Eph. iv. 30; 1 Thess. v. 19; 1 Cor. vi. 19, 20, iii. 16, 17; Acts xiii. 2, 3, iv. 23-25; 2 Thess. iii. 5; Isa. vi. 1-3; Matt. xxviii. 19; 2 Cor. xiii. 14; Rev. i. 4, 5.

All Scripture is given by inspiration of God; for prophecy came not in old
time by the will of man; but holy men of God spake as they were moved by
the Holy Ghost. (2 Tim. iii. 16; 2 Pet. i. 21.)

Christ is the Head of the Church, which is his body. (Eph. i. 22, 23; ν. 23.)
Christ loved the Church, and gave himself for it,.... that he might present
it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such
thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish. (Eph. ii. 25, 27.)
Now, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens
with the saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foun-
dation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
corner-stone; in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth unto
an Holy Temple in the Lord. (Eph. ii. 19-22.)

Ye are fellow-citizens with the saints. (Eph. ii. 19.) We, being many, are one
body in Christ, and every one members of another. (Rom. xii. 5.) That ye
may have fellowship [or communion] with us; and truly our fellowship is
with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. (1 John i. 3.) If we walk in
the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another; and the
blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John i. 7. Com-
pare also Acts ii. 42, 45, Heb. i. 14, and xii. 22, 23.)

Be it known unto you, therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is
preached unto you the forgiveness of sins. (Acts xiii. 38.) There is one
Body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one
Lord, one faith, one baptism. (Eph. iv. 4, 5.) Repent and be baptized every
one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins. (Acts ii.
38.) Arise and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name
of the Lord. (Acts xxii. 16.) In whom we have redemption through his
blood, even the forgiveness of sins. (Col. i. 14.)

The hour is coming, in the which all that are in the grave shall hear his voice,
and shall come forth. (John v. 28.) As in Adam all die, even so in Christ
shall all be made alive. (1 Cor. xv. 22.) For we must all appear before the
judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his
body, according to that he hath done. (2 Cor. v. 10.)

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APOSTLES' CREED.

THE NICENE CREED.

THE ATHANASIAN CREED.

lasting. And the life ever- And the life of the world And they that have done good shall go into

Amen.

to come.

Amen.

evil, into everlasting fire. life everlasting; and they that have done

man believe faithfully, he cannot be saved. This is the Catholic Faith: which except a

SELECT SCRIPTURE PROOFS.

Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth, shall awake; some, to ever-
lasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. (Dan. xii. 2.)
And these [the wicked] shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the
righteous into life eternal. (Matt xxv. 46.) They that have done good [shall
the resurrection of damnation. (John v. 29.)
come forth] unto the resurrection of life: and they that have done evil, unto

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not
shall be damned. (Mark xvi. 16.)

It will be observed, that the whole of the Athanasian Creed does not appear in the foregoing columns, neither indeed could it be inserted. The doctrine of that confession consists of no more than is implied in the Apostles' and Nicene Creeds; but if that "doctrine is branched out into more particulars, and abounds in repetitions, that offend the ear and bewilder the understanding of plain men, let the fault lie where it ought to do; not with the Church, who meant to teach nothing new, but with the opposers of the Catholic doctrine; who attacked the Church with such variety of opposite principles, such intricacy of argument, such metaphysical subtilty of disputation, such perplexity of contention, that it on the other." From Rev. T. H. Horne's Treatise on the Trinity. became impossible to express our own plain faith, without an explicit guard against all the aberrations, which awaited us on the one hand or

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LECTURE XII.

THE PERSONALITY AND AGENCY OF SATAN.

BY THE REV. HUGH STOWELL, M.A.

"AND THE LORD SAID, SIMON, SIMON, BEHOLD, SATAN HATH DESIRED TO HAVE YOU, THAT HE MAY SIFT YOU AS WHEAT: BUT I HAVE PRAYED FOR THEE, THAT THY FAITH FAIL NOT."-Luke xxii. 31, 32.

A sober seriousness will always characterize an honest mind in the pursuit of truth. There is a majesty about the object which ought to scare away levity from its presence. To trifle with it is not more undignified than it is unbecoming. But if these remarks hold good in relation to secular, how much more in relation to religious truth. Here lightness of spirit is as wicked as it is weak, as pernicious as it is misplaced. Let not the man who indulges such a disposition in his search after truth imagine that the pearl of great price will be disclosed to him; let him tremble lest he should be justly abandoned to sport himself with his own deceivings. For reverence of mind is to religious faith what the vine-leaf is to the blossom-its shelter and its shadow, without which it can neither set

nor mature.

The special bearing of these observations on the discussion of that subject which our blessed Redeemer's warning to Simon brings under our notice, and which, in