Imperfection. LESSON XXXVII, 37 MONDAY-Job ix, 20.-If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me if I say I am perfect, it also shall prove me perverse. TUESDAY. PS. cxix. 96.-I have seen an end of all perfection: but thy commandment is exceeding broad. WEDNESDAY.—Eccl. vii. 20.—For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not. THURSDAY.-1 John i. 8.-If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. FRIDAY.-Dan. x. 8.-Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great vision, and there remained no strength in me; for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. SATURDAY.-Phil. iii. 12.-Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. SABBATH.-2 Tim. iii. 17.-That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. SECOND SERIES. S2 Chron. vi. 36. Job xl. 4. Ps. xix. 12. Isa. vi. 5. Ps. xxxviii. 4. Rom. vii. 14. James iii. 2. { 38 The Christian Warfare. LESSON XXXVIIL MONDAY.-1 Tim. i. 18.-This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare; TUESDAY.-Rom. vii. 23.-But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. WEDNESDAY.-Rom. xiii. 12.-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 armor of light. THURSDAY.-1 Pet. v. 8.-Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: FRIDAY.-1 Pet. v. 9.-Whom resist, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. SATURDAY.-Eph. vi. 12.-For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. SABBATH.-Eph. vi. 13.-Therefore take unto you the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 1 Tim. vi. 11. 1 Tim. vi. 12. 2 Cor. vi. 7. 1 John ii. 13. 2 Cor. x. 3. 2 Pet. ii. 11. Isa. xl. 2. Assurance of Faith or of Knowledge. 89 LESSON XXXIX. MONDAY.-John xvii. 8.-For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that, I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. TUESDAY.-John vi. 69.-And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. WEDNESDAY.-1 Thess. i. 5.-For our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance. THURSDAY.—Heb. x. 22.-Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil con science, and our bodies washed with pure water. FRIDAY.-1 John ii. 21.-I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth. SATURDAY.-2 Tim. ii. 19.-Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. SABBATH.-Eccl. viii. 12.-Yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him. 1 John v. 13. Ps. xix. 7. Ps. xciii. 5. Isa. xxxiii. 16. John xxi. 24. John xvii. 25. 2 John i. 1. 40 Assurance of Hope. LESSON XL. MONDAY.-Ex. xv. 2.-The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father is God, and I will exalt him. TUESDAY.-2 Tim. iv. 8.-Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. WEDNESDAY.-Heb. vi. 11.-And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end: THURSDAY.-Heb. vi. 18.-That by two immutable things in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: FRIDAY.-Heb. vi. 19.-Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enterest into that within the vail; SATURDAY.-Rom. v. 5.-And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. SABBATH.-2 Cor. v. 1.-For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. MISCELLANY, NO. V. The Heavenly City. WHEN shall these eyes thy heaven-built walls And pearly gates behold? Thy bulwarks with salvation strong; O when, thou city of my God! Where congregations ne'er break up, And Sabbaths never end. Why should I shrink from pain and woe? Or feel at death dismay? Jerusalem I soon shall view, Apostles, martyrs, prophets there, And soon my friends in Christ below, Jerusalem, my happy home, My soul still pants for thee; There shall my labors have an end, When I thy joys shall see. |