Acts xviii, 23. And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. Acts xix, 1, 21. And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper coasts came to Ephesus: and finding certain disciples. After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome. Acts xx, 2, 3, 25. And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece. And there abode three months: and when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia. And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the Kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. Rom. 1. 10. Making request (if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God) to come unto you. Rom. xv, 22-24, 28. For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you. But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you: Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company. When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain. 1 Cor. iv, 10, 18-20. We are fools for Christ's sake, but ye are wise in Christ; we are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised. Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them which are puffed up, but the power. For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power. 1 Cor. ix, 2. If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 1 Cor. xv, 9-11. For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was 1 Cor. xvi, 5-8. Now I will come 2 Cor. i, 15, 16. And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit; And to pass by yon into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judea. 2 Cor. ii, 12, 13. Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but, taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia. 2 Cor. x, 7. Do ye look on things after the outward appearance? If any man trust to himself that he is Christ's, let him of himself think this again, that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. 2 Cor. xi, 5. For I suppose I was fool in glorying; ye have com- Gal. i, 17, 18, 21. Neither went I Gal. ii, 1. Then, fourteen years after, I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. Phil. ii, 24. But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly. HIS EXEMPLARY CONDUCT. Acts xx, 18, 19. And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what 474 manner I have been with you st all seasons, Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations. which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews. 1 Cor. iv, 16. Wherefore, I beseech you, be ye followers of me. 2 Cor. iv, 1, 2. Therefore seeing received mercy, we faint not: we have this ministry, as we have But have renounced the hidden offence in any thing, that the But selves as the ministers of God, in things approving ourmuch patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, In stripes, in imprisonments, in tu mults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; By pureness, by knowledge, by long suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, By the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left, By honour and dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers and yet true; As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet al way rejoicing; as poor, yet makand yet possessing all things. ing many rich; as having nothing. rude in speech, yet not in know2 Cor. xi, 6. But though I be ledge: but we have been thor oughly made manifest among you in all things. Gal. iv, 12. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are: ye have not injured me at all. Phil. iv, 9. Those things, which ye have both learned, and received and heard, and seen in be with you. me, do: and the God of peace shali and God also, how holly and 1 Thess. ii, 10. Ye are witnesses. justly and unblameably we be haved ourselves among you that believe. 2 Thess. fii, 7. For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us for we behaved not ourselves da orderly among you. HIS PREACHING. Acts ix, 20-22. And straightway he preached Christ in the sym gogues, that he is the Son of God But all that heard him were amazed, and said, Ies not this Le that destroyed thenga which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that I need we, as some others, epistles he might bring them bound unto the chief priests? But Saul increased the more in strength, and confounded the Jews which dwelt at Damascus, proving that this is very Christ. Acts xv, 34, 35. Notwithstanding, it pleased Silas to abide there still. Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word of the Lord, with many others also. Acts xviii, 11. And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them. Acts xx, 26, 27, 31. Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men. For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God. Therefore watch, and remember, that, by the space of three years, I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears. Acts xxviii, 31. Preaching the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ, with all confidence, no man forbidding him. Rom. xv, 29. And I am sure that when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. 1 Cor. ii, 3, 4. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power. of commendation to you, or men. 2 Cor. iv, 5. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. 2 Cor. v, 20. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 2 Cor. xiii, 8. For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth. Gal. ii, 2. And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. Gal. iv, 11, 13. I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. Ye know how, through infirmity of the flesh, I preached the gospel unto you at the first. 2 Cor. vi, 11-13. O ye Corin thians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged. Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels. Now, for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children.) be ye also enlarged. 2 Cor. vii, 3, 4, 12-14. I speak not this to condemn you: for I have said before, that ye are in our hearts to die and live with you. Great is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am filled with Comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation. Wherefore, though I wrote unto you, I did it not for his cause that had done the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered wrong, but that our care for you in the sight of God might appear unto you. Therefore we were comforted in your comfort; yea, and exceedingly the more joyed we for the joy of Titus, because his spirit was refreshed by you all. For if I have boasted any thing to him of you, I am not ashamed; but as we spake all things to you in truth, even so our boasting, which I made before Titus, is found a truth. Phil. ii, 16, 22. Holding forth 2 Cor. viii, 16, 17. But thanks be the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day' of Christ, that I to God, which put the same have not run in vain, neither earnest care into the heart of laboured in vain. But ye know Titus for you. For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but, the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you. with me in the gospel. 1 Thess. ii, 1-3. For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain: But even after that we had suffer 1 Cor. iv, 14, 15.. I write noted before, and were shamefully these things to shame you, but, as entreated, as ye know at Philippi, my beloved sons, I warn you. we were bold in our God to speak For though ye have ten thousand unto you the gospel of God with instructers in Christ, yet have ye much contention, For our exhornot many fathers: for in Christ tation was not of deceit, nor of Jesus I have begotten you uncleanness, nor in guile. through the gospel. 1 Cor. ix, 16, 17. For though J preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 2 Cor. ii, 15--17. For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish. To the one we are the savour of death unto Death; and to the other the savour of lite unto life: and who is sufficient for these things? For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Cor. ii, 1, 2. Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or HIS LOVE FOR THE CHURCHES. Rom. i, 11, 12. For I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established; That is, that I may be comforted together with you, by the mutual faith both of you and me. 2 Cor. il, 3-5. And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you. But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part; that I may not overcharge you all. 2 Cor. xi, 28. Besides those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 2 Cor. xii, 15. And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved. 1 Thess. ii, 8, 17-20. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us. But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured, the more abundantly to see your face with great desire. Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I Paul) once and again; but Satan hindered us. For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our glory and joy. present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh. Philemon 8, 9, 14. Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient, Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. But without thy mind would I do nothing, that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly. Ps. Ixviii, 11. The LORD gave the word; great was the company of those that published it. Isa. lii, 7, 8. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth! Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion. Nahum i, 15. Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off, John xx, 21. Then said Jesus unto them again, Peace be unto you, as my Father bath sent me even so send I you. Rom. x, 14, 15. How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! Eph. iv, 11-13. And he gave sonie, apostles; and someprophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers. For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ. Phil. i, 24-26. Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and joy of faith; That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again. Jer. xxxi, 34. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will remember their sin no more. will forgive their iniquity, and I Heb. viii, 11, 12. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. ITS DUTIES. 2 Chron. xxix. 11. My sons, be not now negligent; for the LORD hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense. the wicked, O wicked man, that shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man stall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it, if he do not turn from his way, be shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Mal. ii, 7. For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts. AND UNDER THE NEW TESTAMENT John xxi, 15. So when they lal dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest the me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs. Col. iv, 17. And say to Archip pus. Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it. 2 Tim. ii, 24. And the servant of the Lord must not strive; bt be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient. 2 Tim. iv, 5. But watch thou in the work of an evangelist, ma all things, endure afflictions, de full proof of thy ministry. Titus ii, 1, 8. But speak the doctrine. Sound speech, that c the things which become soun of the contrary part may b not be condemned; that he that S ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you. Ezek. iii, 17-21. Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn 1 Peter iv, 10, 11. As every mal the wicked from his wicked way, hath received the gift, even to save his life; the same wicked minister the same one to another. man shall die in his iniquity; but as good stewards of the manife! his blood will I require at thine grace of God. If any man speak hand. Yet if thou warn the wick- let him speak as the oracles ed, and he turn not from his wick-God; if any man minister, let his edness, nor from his wicked way, do it as of the ability which Go he shall die in his iniquity; but giveth: that God in all things may thou hast delivered thy soul. be glorified through Jesus Christ; Again, When a righteous man to whom be praise and dominica doth turn from his righteousness, for ever and ever. Amen. and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul. Ezek. xxxiii, 7-9. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto STUDIOUSNESS. Acts xiii, 1, 2. Now there were in the church that was at Anti certain prophets and teachers s Barnabas, and Simeon that w called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene and Mauaen, which had best brought up with Herod the te trarch, and Saul. As they min tered to the Lord, and fasted, t Holy Ghost said, Separate E Barnabas and Saul for the we whereunto I have called them. 1 Tim. iv, 6, 13-16. If thou the brethren in remembrance these things, thou shalt be a gel minister of Jesus Christ, nourish ed up in the words of faith and of good doetrine, whereunto thou, hast attained. Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all. Take heed unto thyin them: for in doing this thou self, and unto thedoctrine; continue shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee. preach, saying, The kingdom of that cannot understand: they all Mark xvi, 15. And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. Luke 1, 16. And many of the children of Israel shall he [Jobu] turn to the Lord their God. Luke xxii,32. But I have prayed and when thou art converted, for thee, that thy faith fail not: strengthen thy brethren. Acts v, 20, 21. Go, stand and 2 Tim. ii, 15. Study to show thy-speak in the temple to the people And self approved unto God, a work all the words of this life. man that needeth not to be when they heard that, they enterashamed, rightly dividing the ed into the temple early in the word of truth. morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought. CONSISTENCY. 1 Tim. iv, 12. Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Titus i1,7. In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity. 1 Peter v, 3. Neither as being lords over God's heritage, but being ensamples to the flock. TEACHING.-UNDER BOTH DISPENSATIONS. Prov. xi, 30. The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise. Isa. lviii, 1. Cry aloud, spare not; lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Jer. iii, 15. And I will give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding. Jer. xxiii, 4. And I will set up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall they be lacking, saith the LORD. Ezek. xx, 4. Wilt thou judge them, son of man? wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers. and Ezek. xxiii, 36. The LORD said moreover unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations. Dan. xii, 3. And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. Jonah 1, 2. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me. Matth. x, 7. And as ye ge, Jer. v, 30, 31. A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in thes land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will least of them even unto the great- Acts xxiv, 24, 25. And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jer. viii, 10, 11. Therefore will I Jewess, he sent for Paul, and give their wives unto others, and heard him concerning the faith their fields to them that shall inin Christ. And as he reasoned of herit them: for every one, from righteousness, temperance, and the least even unto the greatest, judgment to come, Felix trembled, is given to covetousness, from the and answered, Go thy way for prophet even unto the priest, this time; when I have a conveni-every one dealeth falsely. ent season I will call for thee. 2 Cor. v, 20. Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God. 2 Tim. iv, 2. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine. James v, 19, 20. Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him; Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins. 1 Peter v, 2. Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind. Jude 22, 23. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh. SINS ASCRIBED TO PASTORS IN THE OLD Isa, Ivi, 10, 11. His watchmen For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. Lam. iv, 11, 13. The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger. . . . For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in, the midst of her. Hosea iv, 4--6. Yet let no man strive, nor reprove another: for thy people are as they that strive with the priest. Therefore shalt thou fall in the day, and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night, and I will destroy thy mother. My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. Hosea vi, 9. And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way by consent; for they commit lewdness. Hosca ix, 7. The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred. Zech. xi, 4, 5, 17. Thus saith the LORD my God; Feed the flock of the slaughter, Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves not guilty: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not. Woe to the idol shepherd that leaveth the flock! the sword shall be upon his arm, and upon his right eye: his arm shall be clean dried up, and his right eye shall be utterly darkened. Mal. i, 10. Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought? neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought. I have no pleasure in you, saith the LORD of hosts, nelther will I accept an offering at your hand. (See under TENDING THE FLOCKS, ANIMALS.) PUNISHMENT. was come to Jerusalem, he assay- 1 Cor. iii, 3-5. For ye are yet 2 Cor. v, 12. For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on Jer. xxiii, 1, 2, 12. Woe be unto our behalf, that ye may have the pastors that destroy and scat-somewhat to answer them which ter the sheep of my pasture! saith glory in appearance, and not in the LORD. Therefore thus saith heart. the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people, Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD. Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness; they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the LORD. make ourselves of the number, or 2 Cor. x. 12-16. For we dare not compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves But we will not boast of things among themselves, are not wise. without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you. For we stretch not ourselves beJer. xxv, 35, 36. And the shep-yond our measure, as though we herds shall have no way to flee, reached not unto you; for we are nor the principal of the flock to come as far as to you also in escape. A voice of the cry of the preaching the gospel of Christ: shepherds, and an howling of the Not boasting of things without principal of the flock, shall be our measure, that is, of other heard: for the LORD hath spoiled men's labours; but having hope, their pasture. when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly. To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man's line of things made ready to our hand. Hosea iv, 9. And there shall be, like people, like priest: and I will punish them for their ways, and reward them their doings. Mal. ii, 1, 2, 9. And now, O ye priests, this commandment is for you. If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart. Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law. INCONSISTENCIES OF MINISTERS UNDER THE 2 Cor. xi, 12, 13. But what I do. that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers. transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. or in truth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. For I know that this shall turn to my salvation through your prayer, and the supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. CONTENTION. Acts xv, 36-40. And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord. and see how they do. And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cypros: And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. they be blind leaders of te Matth. xv, 14. Let them alone: blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 2 Cor. ii, 17. For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God; but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ. 2 Pet. ii. 2. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. SELFISHNESS. Phil. ii, 20, 21. For I have no man like minded, who will naturally care for your state. For a seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. Phil. i, 15-19. Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and Titus i, 10, 11. For there are strife; and some also of good will. many unruly and vain talkers ari The one preach Christ of conten- deceivers, specially they of the tion, not sincerely, supposing to circumcision": Whose mouths the other of love, knowing that I whole houses, teaching thines add affliction to my bonds; But must be stopped, who subvers am set for the defence of the gos-which they ought not, for fi pel. What then? notwithstanding, lucre's sake. Acts ix, 26, 27. And when Saul every way, whether in pretence, 2 Pet. ii, 3. And through covet |