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my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me, 2 Cor. xii. 7-9. And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, more over of bonds and imprisonment: They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins: being destitute, afflicted, tormented, Heb. xi. 36, 37. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour, 1 Pet. v. 8. The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished, 2 Pet. ii. 9. Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life, Rev. ii. 10. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth, iii. 10.

b And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my coast, and that thine hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! And God granted him that which he requested, 1 Chron. iv. 10. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore, Ps. cxxi. 7, 8. And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible, Jer. xv. 21. I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil, John xvii. 15. Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father, Gal.i. 4. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come, 1 Thess. i. 10. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by

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me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 2 Tim. iv. 17, 18. Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage, Heb. ii. 14, 15. He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil, 1 John iii. 8. We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not. And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness, v. 18, 19. And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: And he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, Rev. vii. 14—17. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away, xxi. 4.

Thy kingdom come, ver. 10. Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou

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and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever, Rev. v. 13. And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God, xix. 1.

dTeaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: And, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen, Matt. xxviii. 20. Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen, Deut. xxvii. 15. And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: the LORD God of my lord the king say so tou, 1 Kings i. 36. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel for ever and ever. And all the people said, Amen, and praised the LORD, 1 Chron. xvi. 36. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, from everlasting, and to everlasting. Amen, and Amen,

reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all, 1 Chron. xxix. 11, 12. The LORD is King for ever and ever: the heathen are perished out of his land, Ps. x. 16. For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth. For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding, xlvii. 2.7. All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power; To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations, cxlv. 10-13. That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over thee, till thou know that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whom soever he will. And at the end of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and IPs. xli. 13. And blessed be his gloriblessed the Most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation, Dan. iv. 25. 34, 35. But the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever, vii. 18. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen, 1 Tim. i. 17. Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords; Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy, vi. 15-17. And every creature which is in heaven,

ous name for ever, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen, and Amen, lxxii. 19. Blessed be the LORD forevermore, Amen, and Amen, lxxxix. 52. Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise ye the LORD, cvi. 48. Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest? 1 Cor. xiv. 16. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us, 2 Cor. i. 20. I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death, Rev. i. 18. And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, iii. 14. And the four and twenty elders, and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God

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that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia, xix. 4. He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly; Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus, xxii. 20.

VER. 14.

Ἐὰν γάς ἀφῆτε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ παι ραπτώματα αὐτῶν, ἀφήσει καὶ ὑμῖν ὁ παρ τῆς ὑμῶν ὁ οὐράνιος.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive

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VER. 15.

Ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀφῆτε τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ πα ραπτώματα αὐτῶν, οὐδὲ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ἀφήσει τὰ παραπτώματα ὑμῶν.

a But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

a See parallels on last clause ver. 12. VER. 16.

Ὅταν δὲ νηστεύητε, μὴ γίνεσθε ὥσπερ οἱ ὑποκριταί, σκυθρωποί· ἀφανίζουσι γὰς τὰ πρόσωπα αὑτῶν, ὅπως φανῶσι τοῖς ἀνθρώποις νηστεύοντες. ̓Αμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ὅτι ἀπέχουσι τὸν μισθὸν αὐτῶν.

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.

a Then came to him the disciples of John, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast oft, but thy disciples fast not? And Jesus. said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast, Matt. ix. 14, 15. David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread, 2 Sam. xii. 16. 21. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that down and wept, and mourned certain sat days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven, Neh. i. 4. Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three

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days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish, Esth. iv. 16. But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom, Ps. xxxv. 13. When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach, Ixix. 10. My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness, cix. 24. Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go Is it not to deal thy bread to the hunfree, and that ye break every yoke? gry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? When thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own fesh? Isa. Ivii. 6, 7. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes, Dan. ix. 3. And she was a widow of departed not from the temple, but about fourscore and four years, which served God with fastings and prayers night and day, Luke ii. 37. Cornelius said, Four days ago fasting until this hour; and at the I was ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, Acts x. 30. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they when they had ordained them elders sent them away, xiii. 2, 3. fasting, they commended them to the in every church, and had prayed with Lord, on whom they believed, xiv. 23. Defraud it be with consent for a time, that ye ye not one the other, except may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, 1 Cor. vii. 5. In stripes, in in watchings, in fastings, 2 Cor. vi. 5. imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness, xi. 27.

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heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly, 1 Kings xxi. 27. Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? Isa. Iviii. 3-5. And to speak unto the priests which were in the house of the LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years? Then came the word of the LORD of hosts unto me, saying, Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and seventh month, even those seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? Zech. vii. 3-5. Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts? Mal. iii. 14.

VER. 17.

Σὺ δὲ νηστεύων ἄλειψαί σου τὴν κεφαλὴν, xal To προσωπόν σου νίψαι.

But thou, when thou fastest, a anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

Wash thyself therefore, and anoint thee, and put thy raiment upon thee, and get thee down to the floor: but make not thyself known unto the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking, Ruth iii. 3. And Joab sent to Tekoah, and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a woman that had a long time mourned for the dead, 2 Sam. xiv. 2. Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment, Eccl. ix. 8. In those days I Daniel

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was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh nor wine in mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole weeks were fulfilled, Dan. x. 2, 3. VER. 18.

Ὅπως μὴ φανῆς τοῖς ἀνθρώποις νηστεύων, ἀλλὰ τῷ πατρὶ σου τῷ ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ· καὶ ὁ πατής σου ὁ βλέπων ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ, ἀποδώσει σοι ἐν τῷ φανερῷ.

That thou a appear not unto men to fast, but unto bihy Father which is in secret: and thy Father, which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

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a Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him, 2 Cor. v. 9. For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth, x. 18. Servants, obey in all things your masters according to the flesh; not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but in singleness of heart, fearing God: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men; Knowing that of the Lord ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ, Col. iii. 22-24. Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the LORD'S sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme, 1 Pet. ii. 13.

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d See parallels on last clause, ver. 4. VER. 19.

Μὴ θησαυρίζετε ὑμῖν θησαυροὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ὅπου σὴς καὶ βρῶσις ἀφανίζει, καὶ ὅπου κλέπται διορύσσουσι καὶ κλέπτουσι·

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

a If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence; If 1 rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much, Job xxxi. 24, 25. Surely every man walketh in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them, Psal. xxxix. 6. Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery : if riches increase, set not your heart

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selves through with many sorrows, 1 Tim. vi. 8-10. 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, Heb. xiii. 5. 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, James v. 2, 3. 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, 1 John ii. 15, 16.

VER. 20.

Θησαυρίζετε δὲ ὑμῖν θησαυροὺς ἐν οὐ

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

upon them, Ixii. 10. Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death, Prov. xi. 4. How much better is it to get wisdom than gold? and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver? xvi. 16. Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven, xxiii. 5. For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is va nity and vexation of spirit, Eccl. ii. 26. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: This is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? The sleep of a la-pava, oπou OUTE σns Oute Beãois àpavízei, καὶ ὅπου κλέπται οὐ διορύσσουσιν, οὐδὲ bouring man is sweet, whether he eat κλέπτουσιν. little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. But those riches perish by evil travail : and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand, v. 10-14. Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land, Zeph. i. 18. So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God, Luke xii. 21. And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God, xviii. 24, 25. And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced them

a Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me, Matt. xix. 21. He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the LORD, and that which he hath given will he pay him again, Prov. xix. 17. Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days, Eccles. xi. 1. 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, Luke xii. 33. And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations, xvi. 9. Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy; That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to distribute, willing to communicate; Laying up in store for

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