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CONTENTS.
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I.--A CORDIAL FOR THE LORD'S PEOPLE
PSALM iii. 8." Thy blessing is upon Thy people."
II. THE MYSTERY OF GODLINESS
I TIMOTHY iii. 16.-" And without controversy
great is the mystery of godliness: God was mani-
fest in the flesh."
III. THE CONDEMNATION OF MANKIND IN THEIR UN-
CONVERTED STATE, AND THEIR BLESSEDNESS
IN CHRIST
EPHESIANS i. 7.-" In whom we have redemption
through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, accord-
ing to the riches of His grace."
IV. CHRIST ALL TO THOSE WHO ARE IN HIM
COLOSSIANS iii. II." Christ is all."
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VI. THE WAY TO PERFECT PEACE
ISAIAH XXVI. 3.-" Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace whose mind is stayed on Thee; because he
trusteth in Thee."
VII. THE NECESSITY FOR CHRIST'S SUFFERINGS
LUKE xxiv. 26.-"Ought not Christ to have suf-
fered these things?"
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VIII. THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST, AND THE IM-
POSSIBILITY OF HIS CONTINUANCE IN A STATE
OF DEATH.
IX.- THE
ACTS ii. 24." Whom God hath raised up, having
loosed the pains of death, because it was not pos-
sible that He should be holden of it."
CHARACTER
BLESSED
PSALM i. 1-3•-
"Blessed is the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord;
and in His law doth he meditate day and night.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of
water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season;
his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he
doeth shall prosper."
X.-CHRIST THE BELOVED, AND FRIEND OF THE
SOLOMON'S SONG v. 16.-"This is my Beloved,
and this is my Friend, O daughters of Jerusalem."
XI. THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST, AND THE ENDS FOR
WHICH HE ASCENDED
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HEBREWS ix. 24.-"For Christ is not entered into
the holy places made with hands, which are the
figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to
appear in the presence of God for us."
XIII. THE HOLY GHOST AND HIS TESTIMONY CON-
CERNING CHRIST
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JOHN XV. 26-" He shall testify of Me."
XIV. THE PROPERTIES OF CHRISTIAN LOVE, AND THE
AGENT BY WHOM IT IS WROUGHT IN THE
SOUL.
GALATIANS v. 22.— "The fruit of the Spirit is love."
XV. THE TRINITY IN UNITY, AND THE MERCIFUL
COMMISSION GIVEN TO THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST
ISAIAH lxi. I.—"The Spirit of the Lord God is
upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me to
preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent
me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives, and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the
acceptable year of the Lord."
XVI. CHRIST THE END OF THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUS-
NESS TO THE BELIEVER
ROMANS X. 4.-"For Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to every one that believeth."
XVII. THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD JESUS
CHRIST, AND THE ENDS FOR WHICH HE
WILL COME
2 PETER iii. 3, 4.
Knowing this first that there
shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after
their own lusts, and saying, Where is the pro-
mise of his coming? for since the fathers fell
asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of the creation."
XVIII. THE WORD OF CHRIST, AND THE DUTY OF
MANKIND WITH REFERENCE TO IT.
COLOSSIANS iii. 16.-"Let the word of Christ
dwell in you richly in all wisdom."
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XIX. CHRIST THE REFINER AND PURIFIER OF THE
HOLY PRIESTHOOD
MALACHI iii. 3.-" And He shall sit as a refiner
and purifier of silver: and He shall purify the
sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver,
that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in
righteousness."
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XX. THE ANCHOR OF THE SOUL.
HEBREWS vi. 19.-" Which hope we have as an
anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and
which entereth into that within the veil."
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XXI. CHRISTIAN LIBERTY GLORIOUS.
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ROMANS viii. 21.-"The glorious liberty of the
children of God."
XXII. THE PLANT OF RENOWN
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EZEKIEL XXXIVv. 29.-"And I will raise up for
them a plant of renown, and they shall be no
more consumed with hunger in the land, neither
bear the shame of the heathen any more."
XXIII. THE AWFUL CONSEQUENCES OF PROFANENESS,
AND OF A DISREGARD OF THE DIVINE AD-
MONITIONS
DANIEL V. 22, 23.-" And thou his son, O Bel-
shazzar, hast not humbled thine heart, though
thou knewest all this; but hast lifted up thyself
against the God of heaven."
XXIV. THE RETROSPECT
HEBREWS X. 32.-"But call to remembrance the
former days.'
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