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6: 27. But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek, offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest; for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

§ 7. MALE AND FEMALE.

MAT. 5: 27. Ye have heard that

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it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery but I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after

her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.

If thy right eye offend thee pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee, that one of thy members perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee cut it off and cast it from thee; for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members perish, and not that thy whole body be cast into hell. hath been said, whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement; but I say unto you that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to cominit adultery. And whosoever shall

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MARK 10: 2. The Pharisees asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him. And he answered, What did Moses command you? And they said, Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement, and to put her away. And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he gave you this precept; but from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female. For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife. And they twain shall be one flesh. (Gen. 2: 24.) So then they are no more twain but one flesh. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. And in the house the disciples asked him again of the same matter. And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. (Luke 16: 18. Mat. 19: 3.)

§ 8. HONESTY.

MARK 10: 19. Do not steal. Defraud not.

1 Cor. 6: 8. Ye do wrong, and Know ye not that the unrighteous defraud, and that your brethren. shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators,.. nor thieves, nor covetous shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1 'THES. 4: 6. That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter; because that the Lord is the avenger of all such; as we also have forewarned you and testi

fied.

EPH. 4: 28. Let him that stole steal no more.

MAT. 15: 19. Out of the heart proceed...thefts;... these defile a man.

§ 9. GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE.

MAT. 12: 37. By thy words shalt thou be justified, and by thy words shalt thou be condemned.

15: 18. The things that proceed out of the mouth, these come forth from the heart and defile the man, for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,. .... false witness, blasphemy.

JAMES 3: 6. The tongue is a fire; a world of iniquity; it defileth the whole body.

EPH. 4: 31. Let all bitterness... and evil speaking be put from you. TITUS 3 2. Speak evil of no

man.

1 PETER 3: 10. He that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil.

JAMES 1: 26. If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, that man's religion is vain.

1 COR. 6: 10. Revilers... shall not inherit the kingdom of God. JAMES 4: 11. Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law and judgeth the law; but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; who art thou that judgest another?

COL. 3: 8. Put off... blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

1 TIM. 1: 4. Neither give heed to fables, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying.

JAMES 3: 10. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing; these things ought not so 'to be. GAL. 5: 15. If ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

EPH. 4: 25. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath; neither give place to the devil.-29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. - 31. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice.

5: 18. But be filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual

songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord, giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

PHIL. 1: 27. Let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.

COL. 4: 5. Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

MAT. 12: 36. For every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof, in the day of judg

ment.

JAMES 3: 2. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. Behold also the ships, which, though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity! So is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed, of mankind: but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Theréwith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth_proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meek

ness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your

hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work.

§ 10. PROPERTY.

MAT. 5. 42. Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away,

22: 21. Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar's, and unto God the things that are God's.

LUKE 3: 11. He that hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none; and he that hath meat, let him do likewise.

6 31. As ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them, likewise. -83. If ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. Do good and lend... hoping for nothing again, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be called the children of the Highest. - 38. Give and it shall be given unto you... for with the same

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COL. 3: 5. Mortify your members... covetousness, which is idolatry.

EPH. 5: 5. No covetous man hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

LUKE 12: 13. And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you? And he said unto them, Take heed and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. (Parable of the rich miser. 12: 16.)

[See Christian Duties.]

ACTS 2 44. All that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

1 TIM. 5: 8. If any provide not for his own, specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel.

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hold I have given you every herb died and was buried; and in hell he bearing seed, which is upon the facelifted up his eyes, being in torments.

of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

§ 2. HIS SOUL.

I. A Spirit.

GEN. 1: 26. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

25: 8. Abraham gave up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

Ps. 31: 5. Into thy hand I commend my spirit.

ISA. 31: 3. The Egyptians are / men, and not God; and their horses flesh and not spirit.

Ps. 19: 7. The law of the LORD is perfeet, converting the soul.

106: 15. God granted their request; but sent leanness into their. soul.

16: 10. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell.

MAT. 10: 28. Fear not them which kill the body: but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

JAMES 5: 20. He that converteth a sinner from the error of his ways, shall save a soul from death; and hide a multitude of sins.

LUKE 12: 20. This night thy soul shall be required of thee.

MAT. 16: 26. What is a man profited if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

REV. 6: 9. I saw under the altar, the souls of them that were slain for the word of God.

20: 4. I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus.

MAT. 22: 82. I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

LUKE 16: 22. The beggar died, and was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also

23: 43. To-day shalt thou be with me in Paradise.

2 Cor. 5: 6. While we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord. We are confident I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

ACTS 7: 59. They stoned Stephen, calling upon God and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. [See Future State.]

II. Immortal.

2 TIM. 1: 10. Our Savior Jesus Christ... hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel.

1 COR. 15: 53. This corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal, immortality.

ROM. 2: 7. God will render to them who... seek for glory, honor, and immortality, eternal life.

MAT. 25: 46. The righteous shall go into life eternal.

MARK 3: 29. He that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, hath never forgiveness; but is in danger of eternal damnation.

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JOHN 10: 27. My sheep hear my voice, and... I give unto them eternal life. And they shall never perish. [See Future State.]

§ 3. ORIGINAL PROBATIONARY MORAL

CHARACTER.

GEN. 1: 81. And God saw every thing that he had made, and behold. it was very good.

2: 15. God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

ECCL. 7: 29. God made man upright.

GEN. 1: 27. So God created man in his own image; in the image of God created he them.

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CHAPTER II.

THE APOSTACY.

Temptation.

GEN. 3: 1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto for God doth know that in the day the woman, Ye shall not surely die: ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

Transgression.

And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day:

and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.

Detection.

And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked: and I hid myself. And He said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat? And the man said, The woman, whom thou gavest to be with_me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did

eat.

Sentence.

And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this,

thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life: and I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, the woman he said, I will greatly and thou shalt bruise his heel. Unto multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; thistles shall it bring forth to thee; days of thy life; thorns also and and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

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