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drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

IV. Passions and Practices by which

the Law of Love is violated.

1 COR. 14: 20. In malice be ye children; but in understanding be

men.

EPH. 4: 31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.

COL. 3: 8. Put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

TITUS 3: 3. For we ourselves also, were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Ps. 37: 8. Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

PROV. 14: 17. He that is soon angry is foolish; and a man of wicked devices is hated.

15: 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath; but grievous words stir up anger.-18. A wrathful man stirreth up strife; but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

16: 32. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

21:14. A gift in secret pacifieth anger, and a reward in the bosom, strong wrath.

27: 4. Wrath is cruel and anger outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

29: 22. An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furions man aboundeth in transgression.

14: 29. He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding; but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

19: 19. A man of great wrath, shall suffer punishment.

MAT. 5: 22. Whosoever is angry with his brother without cause, shall be in danger of the judgment.

ROM. 12: 19. Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath.

EPH. 4:26. Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath.

JOHN 7: 23. Are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?

T PROV. 23: 17. Let not thy heart envy sinners; but be thou in the fear of the Lord, all the day long.

ROM. 18: 13. Let us walk honestly, not in strife and envyings.

2 COR. 12: 20. I fear... lest there be envying amongst you.

GAL. 5: 26. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another.

1 PETER 2: 1. Laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings; as new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

MAT. 27: 18. He knew that for envy they had delivered him.

ACTS 5: 17. The Jews filled with indignation laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

7: 9. The patriarchs moved with envy sold Joseph into Egypt.

JAMES 4: 5. The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.

LEV. 19: 17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart.

Ps. 34: 21. Evil shall slay the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

AMOS 5: 10. They hate him that rebuketh in the gate; they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

JOHN 7: 7. The world hateth me, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.

15: 18. If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you. If ye were of the world, the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

1 JOHN 2: 9. He that hateth his brother is in darkness.

3: 15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer.

4:20. If a man say, I love God and hateth his brother, he is a liar.

1 SAM. 18: 8. And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom? And Saul

eyed David from that day and forward.

ROM. 6: 21. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are ashamed?

T JAMES 4: 1. Whence come wars and fightings among you? Conie they not hence even of your lusts, that war in your members?

PROV. 26: 21. As coals are to burning coals, so is a contentious man to kindle strife.

1 SAM. 22: 9. Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub. And he inquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and they came all of them to the king. And Saul said, Hear now, thou son of Ahitub. And he answered, Here I am, my lord. And Saul said unto him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired of God for him, that he should rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son-in-law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honorable in thine house? Did I then begin to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or more. And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house. And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not show it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD. And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore-and-five

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persons that did wear a linen ephod. And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

§ 4. CHARITY.

1 COR. 13: 1. Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or а tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. Aud though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

16: 14. Let all things be done with charity.

COL. 3:14. Above all these things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness: and let the peace of God rule in your hearts.

1 TIM. 1:5. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a

mammon.

pure heart, and of a good conscience, other. Ye cannot serve God and and of faith unfeigned: from which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling, desiring to be teachers of the law, understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.

2 THESS. 1: 3. We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth.

1 TIM. 4: 12. Be thou an example of the believers in... charity.

2 TIM. 2: 22. Follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

3:10. Thou hast fully known my long-suffering, charity, patience.

1 PETER 4: 8. Above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves; for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

2 PETER 1: 7. Add to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness, charity.

3 JOHN 5. Beloved, thou dost faithfully whatsoever thou dost, to the brethren and to strangers, which have borne witness of thy charity before the church.

§ 5. DEADNESS TO THE WORLD.

I. To its Riches.

MAT. 6:19. 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 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. 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! 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

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LUKE 12: 15. Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. ...The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully; and he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do?...I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich towards God.

12: 22. And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on. 'The life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment. Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap: which neither have storehouse, nor barn; and God feedeth them. How much more are ye better than the fowls? And which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit? If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest? Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, 'That Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. If then God so clothe the grass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith! And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. But rather seek ye the kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you. Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Sell that ye have, and give alms: provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

16: 14. And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him. And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

ACTS 4: 32. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the Apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands, or houses, sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, and laid them down at the Apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

JAMES 5: 1. Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days. Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth; and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter. Ye have condemned and killed the just: and he doth not resist you.

HEB. 13:5. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said,

I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee:

so that we may boldly say,

The LORD is my helper,

And I will not fear what man shall do unto me.

T 1 JOHN 2:14. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the

wicked One. Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever.

II. Deadness to worldly Honors and Distinctions.

1 COR 4: 3. With me, it is a very small thing, that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment.

Ps. 49: 12. Man, being in honor, abideth not.

JOHN 5: 41. I receive not honor from men.

LUKE 2: 7. She laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

MAT. 21: 5. Tell ye the daughter of Zion, Behold thy king cometh, unto thee meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt, the foal of an ass.

8:20. The Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

2 TIM. 2: 4. No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. And if a man also strive for the mastery, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully.

JER. 45: 5. Seekest thou great things for thyself? Seek them not. MAT. 23: 12. He that exalteth himself shall be abased.

DEUT. 8: 11. Beware that thy heart be not lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God.

III. Deadness to its Pleasures.

HEB. 11: 24. By faith, Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for

a season.

PROV. 21: 17. He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man,

1 TIM. 5: 6. She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.

LUKE 12: 16. The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: and he thought within him

self, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? And he said, This will do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods: and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. But God said unto him, Thou fool! this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thon hast provided? So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.

JAMES 5: 5. Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter... be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord.

LUKE 16:19. There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day; and there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate full of sores; and desiring to be fed with the crumbs, which fell from the rich man's table....The beggar died, and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; and in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

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pleasant places are laid waste. Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord: wilt thou hold thy peace and be wroth very sore?

NEH. 1:3. They said unto me, The remnant, that are left of the captivity there in the province, are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.

JER. 8: 18. When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people, because of them that dwell in a far country: is not the LORD in Zion? is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images, and with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me. Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

T 9: 1. Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way

§ 6. SOLICITUDE FOR THE WELFARE faring men; that I might leave my

OF THE CHURCH AND SALVATION OF SINNERS.

ISA. 22: 4. I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the LORD God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

64: 1. O that thou wouldst rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.-10. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers worshipped thee, is burned with fire, and all our

people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth.

13: 17. If ye will not hear, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride, and mine eyes sball weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD's flock is carried away captive.

LAM. 1 1. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her:

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