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my sister, my spouse! How much better is thy love than wine! &c. A garden inclosed is my sister, &c. Let my beloved come into his garden, &c. -Cant. iv. 7—10. 12, 16.

It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled, &c. I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him: I called him, but he gave me no answer, &c. Tell him that I am sick of love, &c. My beloved is, &c. He is altogether lovely.

Cant. v. 2. 6. 8. 10. 16.

I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine, &c. Thou art beautiful, O my love, &c. my dove, my undefiled, &c. Who is she that looketh forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun?-Cant. vi. 3, 4. 9, 10; ii. 16. I am my beloved's, and his desire is towards me.-Cant. vii. 10.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death.-Cant. viii. 6.

Behold I, and the children whom the Lord hath given me.-Isa. viii. 18; Heb. ii. 13.

Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me, &c. When saw we thee an hungered, &c. and did not minister? &c. Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.-Matt. xxv. 40. 44, 45; Mark ix. 41, 42.

Go tell my brethren, that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.-Matt. xxviii. 10; Mark iii. 35; Rom. viii. 29.

Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say well: for so I am.-John xiii. 13. Let not your hearts be troubled, &c. I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also, &c. I will not leave you comfortless, &c. Ye see me; because I live, ye shall live also, &c. You in me, and I in you, &c. I will love him, and manifest myself to him, &c. Peace I leave with you let not your hearts be troubled.-John xiv. 1. 3. 18–21. 23. 27; 2 John 3.

I am the vine, ye are the branches, &c. As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. I have loved you; greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, &c.-John xv. 5. 9. 11— 14; Luke xii. 4.

These things have I spoken, that ye should not be offended, &c. I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you. The Father himself loveth you, &c.-John xvi. 1. 22. 27.

Christ prays for his church at large. -John xvii.

Go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.-John xx. 17.

Jesus saith, Feed my lambs, feed my sheep.-John xxi. 15—17.

When Saul persecuted the Church, Christ said unto him, Why persecutest thou me? &c. I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.-Acts ix. 4, 5.

Ye are become dead to the law, that He that eateth my flesh, and drink-ye should be married to another, even eth my blood, dwelleth in me, and I to him who is raised from the dead.in him.-John vi. 56. Rom. vii. 4; xiv. 9.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep, &c. I, &c. know my sheep, and am known of mine.-John x. 11. 14.

I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, to the intent ye may believe.-John xi. 15.

Thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.-Rom. xi. 17, 18.

Ye are Christ's.-1 Cor. iii. 23.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ, &c. He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.1 Cor. vi. 15, 17.

When ye sin so against the brethren, ye sin against Christ.-1 Cor. viii. 12. The head of every man is Christ.1 Cor. xi. 3.

All the members of that one body being many, are one body; so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized in one body.-1 Cor. xii. 12, 13; Gal. iii. 28.

together, increaseth with the increase of God.-Col. ii. 19.

Both he that sanctifieth, and they who are sanctified, are all of one; for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren, saying, I will declare thy name, &c.-Heb. ii. 11, 12.

Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast,

The love of Christ constraineth &c.-Heb. iii. 6. us.-2 Cor. v. 14.

I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you a chaste virgin to Christ.-2 Cor. xi. 2.

Gave him to be the head over all things to the church, which is his body; the fulness of him that filleth all in all.—Eph. i. 22, 23; Col. i. 18. To know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge.-Eph. iii. 19.

Grow up into him in all things, which is the head, Christ, from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted, &c.-Eph. iv. 15, 16.

Christ hath loved us, and given himself for us an offering, &c. Christ is the head of the church, and the Saviour of the body, &c. Christ loved the church, and gave himself for it, that he might sanctify and cleanse it, &c. that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, &c. No man ever hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. -Eph. v. 2. 23. 25-27. 29, 30.

I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ, which is far better.-Phil. i. 23.

What things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ; yea, doubtless, I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ. Phil. iii. 7, 8.

Not holding the head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit

Jesus Christ, whom having not seen ye love, &c.-1 Pet. i. 7, 8.

Unto you which believe, he is precious, &c.-1 Pet. ii. 7.

Jesus Christ, that loved us, and washed us, &c.—Rev. i. 5.

If any man hear my voice, &c. I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.-Rev. iii. 20; John xiv. 21. 23.

CHAPTER XIV.

OF THE DUTY OF BELIEVERS; ESPE-
CIALLY SUCH AS WOULD EXCEL.

SECT. 1.-Towards God, in the
General.

To live to God, not to themselves: to
be holy, fruitful, walking in the
light, in an honest, heavenly, and
spiritual conversation, worthy of
their high calling; to glorify God,
and mind the things above.

FEAR God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.-Eccles. xii. 13, 14.

Enoch walked with God.-Gen. v. 22. 24.

Noah walked with God.-Gen. vi. 9. And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou, &c. For thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation, &c. And Noah did according unto all that the Lord commanded him.— Gen. vii. 1. 5.

I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy, for I am holy.-Lev. xi. 44, 45; xix. 2.

Seek not after your own heart, &c. but be ye holy unto your God, &c.— Numb. xv. 39, 40.

Thou art an holy people unto the Lord, &c. Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.-Deut. xiv. 2, 3.

Those that honour me, I will honour: and they that despise me, shall be lightly esteemed.-1 Sam. ii. 30. Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, for ever.-Ps. xciii. 5.

In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.-Prov. iii. 6.

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. Ezek. xviii. 4.

Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself.-Hosea x. 1. He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good, &c. but to do justly, love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God.-Micah vi. 8.

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? &c. Ye have sown much, and bring in little, &c. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste; and ye run every man unto his own house, therefore, &c.-Hag. i. 4. 6. 9, 10.

If I be a father, where is mine honour? If I be a master, where is my fear? saith the Lord.-Mal. i. 6. Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance, &c. The axe is laid unto the root of the trees, therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.-Matt. iii. 8. 10; Luke iii. 8; Matt. v. 29, &c.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.-Matt. v. 16; 1 Sam. ii. 30; John xv. 8.

Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, &c. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also, &c. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, &c. -Matt. vi. 20, 21. 33; Luke xii. 33, 34; John vi. 27.

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest unto

your souls: for my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.-Matt. xi. 29, 30; 1 Pet. ii. 21-23.

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things.-Matt. xii. 35; vii. 17, 18.

They are to improve their talents. See the Parable.-Matt. xxv. 14, &c. Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none; cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground? &c. Strive to enter in at the strait gate.-Luke xiii. 7. 24.

When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants, we have done that which was our duty to do.-Luke xvii. 10.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.-John xii.

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Ye call me Master and Lord; and. ye say well: for so I am.—John xiii. 13.

Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, he taketh away; and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit, &c. Herein is my father glorified, that ye bear much fruit, &c. I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain.John xv. 2. 8. 16.

In every nation, he that feareth God, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.-Acts x. 35.

Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.-Acts xxiv. 16.

I have shewed, that they should repent, and do works meet for repentance.-Acts xxvi. 20.

We also should walk in newness of life, &c. Yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto

righteousness? &c.Rom. vi. 4. 13. | spirit, which are God's.-1 Cor. vi. 16. 19. 13. 15. 19, 20; iii. 16, 17.

Ye are also become dead to the law, &c. that we should bring forth fruit unto God, &c. That we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.-Rom. vii. 4. 6. We are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh for if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.Rom. viii. 12, 13.

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Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.-1 Cor. x. 31.

Be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ.-1 Cor. xi. 1.

Be ye stedfast, &c. always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.-1 Cor. xv.58.

Wherefore we endeavour (or labour) that whether present, or absent, we may be accepted of him. The love of Christ constraineth us, because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead, &c. That they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them.-2 Cor. v. 9. 14, 15.

I beseech you, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service; and be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable will of God, &c. Provide Having therefore these promises things honest in the sight of all men.-(dearly beloved) let us cleanse ourRom. xii. 1, 2. 17; Eph. v. 10.

It is high time to awake out of sleep, &c. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, &c. but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ; and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.-Rom. xiii. 11-14.

None of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself: for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, &c. Whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's. Righteousness and peace, &c. For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.-Rom. xiv. 7— 9. 17, 18; xi. 36; 1 Pet. iv. 2. 6.

I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.-Rom. xvi. 19.

The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, &c. Your bodies are the members of Christ, &c. And ye are not your own; for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your

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selves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.-2 Cor. vii. 1.

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.-2 Cor. viii. 21; 1 Tim. ii. 2; Heb. xiii. 18.

Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil (or fulfil not) the lust of the flesh.-Gal. v. 16, 17.

Be not deceived, God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to the flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption: but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life, &c. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, &c. but a new creature. Gal. vi. 7, 8. 15; v. 16.

According as he hath chosen us in him, &c. that we should be holy, and without blame before him in love.Eph. i. 4.

Created, &c. unto good works, which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them.-Eph. ii. 10; Titus ii. 14.

I therefore beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation where

This I say there- | earthly things: for our conversation is in heaven.-Phil. iii. 17-20; 1 Cor. xi. 1.

with ye are called. fore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, &c. But ye have not so learned Christ, &c. That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lust; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind: and that ye put on the new man, which, after God, is created in righteousness, and true holiness.-Eph. iv. 1. 17. 20. 22—24 ; Col. iii. 9, 10.

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Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children, &c. Ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of the light, &c. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, &c. See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time. -Eph. v. 1. 8. 11. 15, 16.

That ye may approve things that are excellent, (or try things which differ,) that ye may be sincere, and without offence, till the day of Christ, &c. Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God, &c. According to my earnest expectation, &c. Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death, &c. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ. Phil. i. 10, 11. 20. 27.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, &c. That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine (or shine ye) as lights in the world, &c. All seek their own things, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.-Phil. ii. 12. 15. 21.

Brethren, be ye followers of me, and mark them which walk so, as ye have us for an example: for many walk, of whom I have told you, &c. even weeping, they are the enemies of the cross of Christ, &c. who mind

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do, &c.-Phil. iv. 8, 9.

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord, unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work.-Col. i. 10; 2 Thess. i. 11.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, &c.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth, &c. Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, &c.— Col. iii. 1, 2. 5.

Walk in wisdom toward them who are without, redeeming the time, &c. That ye may stand perfect, and complete, in all the will of God, &c.Col. iv. 5. 12.

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That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom.-1 Thess. ii. 12. We exhort you, by the Lord Jesus, have received of us how ye ought to walk, and to please God; so ye would abound more and more, &c. For this is the will of God, your sanctification, &c. That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour, &c. For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.1 Thess. iv. 1. 3, 4. 7.

Now the very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless, unto the coming of our Lord.-1 Thess. v. 23.

The end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned.-1 Tim. i. 5.

Exercise thyself to godliness, &c. Godliness is profitable to all things,

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