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Ps. cxxxiii, 1. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.

Mark xii, 31. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment

greater than these.

Rom. xli, 8-11. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for ne that loveth another bath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Love worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.

Gal. v, 14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

Heb. xiii, 1. Let brotherly love continue.

James ii, 8. If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.

1 Peter iv, 8. And, above all things, have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

1 John ii, 7--10. Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment, which ye had from the beginning: the old commandinent is the word which ye have heard from the be

ment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you; because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

He that loveth

1 John ill, 10, 11, 13, 14, 18, 19...... Whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother. For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, hat we should love one another. Marvel not, my brethren, if the World hate you. We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren: he that loveth not his brother abideth in death. My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed, and in truth. And hereby we know that we are of the truth,

and shall assure our hearts before him.

LOVE TO ENEMIES.

those that love them, And if yo 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.

Exod. xxiii, 4, 5. If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again. If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, wouldest forbear to help him; thou shalt surely help with him.

Prov. xxiv, 17. Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stum

bleth.

Prov. xxv, 21, 22. If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the LORD shall reward thee.

Matth. v, 43, 44, 46, 47. Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy: But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others do not even the publicans so?

Luke vi, 26--28, 32-35. Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets. 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. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have yer for sinners also love

SYMPATHY.

Job xxx, 25. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Lam. iii, 51. Mine eye affecteth. mine, heart, because of all the daughters of my city.

Rom. xil, 15, 16. Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. Be of the same mind one toward another.. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be. not wise in your own conceits.

Col. iii, 12. Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind; ineekness, longsuffering.

Heb. xiii, 3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with

them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

FORGIVENESS OF INJURIES.

Zech. vii, 9. Thus speaketh the LORD of host, saying, Execute true judgment, and shew mercy and compassions, every man to his

brother.

Matth. v, 7, 23, 24. Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy. Therefore, if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remeniberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there

thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.

Matth. vi, 14, 15. For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matth. xviii, 21, 22, 35. Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven. So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.

Luke vi, 36, 37, Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven.

Luke xvil. 3, 4. Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

in heaven.

John xiil, 13-15. Ye call me Master and Lord; and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

2 Cor. vill, 8. I speak not by commandment, but by occasion of the forwardness of others, and to prove the sincerity of your love.

Phil. ii, 17. Brethren, be followers together of me, and mark them which walk so, as ye have us for an ensample.

1 Thess. 1, 6-8. And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost: So that ye were ensamples Eph. iv, 32. And be ye kind one to all that believe in Macedonia to another, tender-hearted, for- and Achaia. For from you soundgiving one another, even as Goded out the word of the Lord not for Christ's sake hath forgiven

you.

Col. ii, 13. Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

GOOD EXAMPLE.-DUTY

OF SETTING AND
FOLLOWING IT.

Josh. xxiv, 31. And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel.

Judg. ii, 7. And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

Judg. iv, 1. And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD when Ehnd was dead.

Prov. ii, 20. That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the right

eous.

Matth. v, 13-16. Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have

only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

Deut. xviii, 9. When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

2 Chron. Xxx, 7. And be not ye like your fathers, and like your brethren, which trespassed against the LORD God of their fathers, who therefore gave them

up to desolation, as ye see.

Neh. v, 9. Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?

Isa. vii, 11. For the LORD spake thus to me with a strong hand, and instructed me, that I should not walk in the way of this people, saying.

Ezek. xx, 18. But I said unto their children in the wilderness, Walk ye not in the statutes of your fathers, neither observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.

Zech. i, 4. Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Turn ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.

Matth. xxili, 1-3. Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, Saying. The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

1 Pet. ii, 12. Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles; that, whereas they speak against you as evil-doers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

1 Cor. x, 6. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not Just after evil things, as they also lusted.

Eph. iv, 17. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye

henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.

is good. He that doeth good is of that which is evil, but that which 3 John 11. Beloved, follow not God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

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sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.

Job xxxi, 13-15. If I did despise the cause of my man-servant, or of my maid-servant, when they contended with me: What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him? Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb?

Job xxxiv, 19. How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

Ps. xlix, 1, 2. Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world: Both low and high, rich and poor, together.

Ps. lxii, 9. Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.

P3. cxlviii, 11-13. Kings of the earth, and all people; princes, and all judges of the earth: Both young men and maidens; old men and children: Let them praise the name of the LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.

Prov. xxil, 2. The rich and poor meet together; the LORD is the

maker of them all.

Prov. xxvi, 10. The great God, that formed all things, both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

Prov. xxvii, 19. As in water face answereth to face; so the heart of man to man.

Prov. xxix, 13. The poor and the deceitful man meet together, the LORD lighteneth both their eyes.

Eccles. iv, 1. So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun; and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power, but they had no comforter.

Eccles. vi, 8. For what hath the wise more than the fool? what bath the poor, that knoweth to

walk before the living?

Isa. ii, 9. And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself; therefore forgive them not.

Acts xvii, 26. And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation.

2 Cor.viii, 13-15. For I mean not

Jer. xiii, 13, 14. Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the LORD: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

And I

Mal. ii, 10. Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother, by profaning the covenant of our fathers?

Acts ii. 44--47. And all that be lieved were together, and had all things common; And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Acts iv, 32, 34--37. And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need. And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

lack.

James 1, 9, 10. Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted; But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass

Midian prevailed against Israel: Judges vi, 2. And the hand of and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

1 Kings xvii, 2, 3. And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.

2 Kings i, 7, 8. And he said unto them, What manner of man was he which came up to meet you, and told you these words? And they answered him, He was an hairy man, and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah the Tishbite.

2 Kings xi, 2, 3. But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king's sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bed-chamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. And he was with her hid

in the house of the LORD six years: and Athaliah did reign over the land.

Job xv, 28. And he dwelleth in desolate cities, and in houses

which no man inhabiteth, which are ready to become heaps.

Job xvi, 7. But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Job xix, 13-16. He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar frinds have forgotten me. They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I entreated him with my mouth.

Job xxiv, 8. They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

good works of some are manifest beforehand; and they that are otherwise cannot be hid.

Job xxx, 3, 7, 28, 29. For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste: Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. I went mourning without the sun; I stood up, and I cried in the congregation, I am a brother to dragons, and a com-lives, and be like the heath in the Jer. xlviii, 6, 28. Flee, save your panion to owls. in Moab, leave the cities, and O ye that dwell dwell in the rock, and be like the dove that maketli her nest in the sides of the hole's mouth.

Isa.xxvi, 20. Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

Ps. xxxix, 12. Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers

icere.

Ps. Ivi, 8. Thou tellest my wan derings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Ps. 1xviii, 6. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains; but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Ps. Ixix, 8. I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.

Ps. lxxxviii, 8, 18. Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth. Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

Ps. cii, 6, 7. I am like a pelican of the wilderness; I am like an owl of the desert. I watch, and

wilderness.

Jer. xlix, 8. Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.

shall dwell safely in the wilderEzek. xxxiv, 25. .... And they ness, and sleep in the woods.

Hosea xiii, 12. The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up: his sin is hid.

Esan searched out! how are his Obad. 6. How are the things of hidden things sought up!

Jonah iv, 5. So Jonah went out side of the city, and there made of the city, and sat on the east him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.

NEIGHBOURHOOD.

Judges xviii, 22. And when they were a good way from the house houses near to Mical's house were of Micah, the men that were in the gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

Prov. xxi, 10. The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neigh bour findeth no favour in his eyes.

Prov. xxv, 17. Withdraw thy foot from thy neighbour's house; lest he be weary of thee and so hate thee.

adan the captain of the guard leit Jer. xxxix, 10. But Nebuzarhad nothing, in the land of Judah, of the poor of the people, which and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

every man' under his vine, and under his fig-tree; and none shall make them afraid; for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.

Micah iv, 4. But they shall sit

Zech. iii, 10. In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call the vine and under the tig-tree. every man his neighbour under

FRIENDSHIP.

are open beforehand, going before 1 Tim. v, 24, 25. Some men's sins to judgment; and some men they follow after. Likewise also the 4.02