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What is the head of this section?

What does our Saviour here teach us to be one condition, on which God will forgive us our trespasses?

If we do not forgive men, what will God not do? VER. 16-18.

What is the head of this section?

Whom must you not be like, when you fast? What do the hypocrites do?

What have they?
What reward?

A. The praise of men. What then must be your conduct when you fast? What is the meaning of that?

A. Not to make play of it to men.

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To whom must you appear to fast?

What then will your Father in heaven do to you? VER. 19-21. Repeat the head of this

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VER. 14, 15.

Forgiving our Brethren. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

VER. 16-18. Fasting. Moreover, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

VER. 19-21. Laying up Treasures in Heaven.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal; But lay up for yourselves treasures in.

What will be the advantage of that?

Where will your heart be fixed?

What is meant by our hearts ?"

A. Our thoughts and affections.

When do we lay up treasures in heaven?

A. When we do good for the love of Christ.

VER. 22, 23.

What is the head of this section?

What is meant by "single?"

A. Entire, sound, free from disorders.

What is the light of the body?

If your eye be single, what will your whole body be?

If your eye be evil, what will your whole body be? What is meant by "evil ?" A. Dim, defective; that sees not clearly.

What is to be understood by this?

A. That as the eye is to the direction of the body, so is a true judgment respecting earthly and heavenly treasures to the soul.

VER. 24-34. Repeat the head of this section.

What do you mean by "exhorteth?"

heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

VER. 22, 23. Keeping a single eye. The light of the body is the eye; if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness

VER. 24-34.

Christ exhorteth not to be anxious about worldly things, but principally to seek God's kingdom and righteousness.

A. Adviseth, or strongly cautioneth.

What do you mean by " anxious?"

A. Over careful.

Whom can no man serve? What will be the consequence of a man's serving two masters?

Which are the two masters whom you cannot serve?

What is meant by "Mammon ?"

A. The world, or worldly riches.

What are you not to take thought for?

What are you to understand by not taking thought

for it?

A. Not being over anxious about it.

Why should we not be too anxious about what we eat?

A. Because the life is of more value than meat.

Why should we not be too anxious about what we put on ?

A. Because the body is of more value than raiment or clothes.

What does Christ tell us to look at ?

What must we observe in them?

Who feeds them? What are you, when compared with them?

What do you learn from this?

No man can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and Mammon. Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink : nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you, by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature? And why take ye thought for raiment ? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, they toil not, neither do they spin And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

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What will be the consequence of this?

What is meant by "all these things?"

A. All the things necessary for this life.

What does Christ tell you not to take thought for in the last place? Why?

What is here meant by "not taking thought for the morrow?"

A. Not to be so anxious about what will come hereafter as to distrust God's goodness.

What will every day bring with it?

A. Evil enough, without our increasing it by being over anxious.

and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

CHAPTER VII.

VER. 1-5.

What is the head of this section?

What does Christ tell you not to do?

Why?
How shall you be judged?
A. As I judge others.
Who will judge you?
A. Jesus Christ.
When?

A. At the last day. What is meant by "judging?"

A. Passing severe and hasty opinions upon others.

ST. MATTHEW, CHAP. VII. VER. 1-5.

Christ proceedeth in his Sermon to condemn rash judgment.

Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what

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