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dark mysteries in one place, but the self-same thing, in another place, is spoken more familiarly and plainly to the capacity, both of the learned and unlearned."

This work illustrates the truth of the above passage from Augustin, and if it lead some readers to the more careful study of Scripture, in order to find passages that more fully harmonize, and also lead to the study and love of God's Word, and placing it in its rightful position-above the words of man -the labours of the collator will not have been in vain in the Lord, to whom be all the praise.

June, 1878.

EDWARD WILKINSON,

Rector of Snargate, Kent.

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THE HARMONY OF SCRIPTURE; OF

SHOWING THE

ONENESS OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT.

"Whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope."—ROM. xv. 4.

GENESIS I.

V. I. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

v. 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

v. 3. And God said, Let there be light; and there was light.

v. 9. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear and it was so.

V. II. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth and it was so.

NEW TESTAMENT.

John. i. 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God.

Heb. i. 2. Whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

John vi. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth.

2 Cor. iii. 6. The Spirit giveth life.

2 Cor. iv. 6. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Pet. iii. 5. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water.

Heb. vi. 7. For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God.

GENESIS I.

V. 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years.

7. 25. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their their kind and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

v 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.

v. 27. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

v. 28. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

V. 29. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

v. 31. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good, and the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Chap. ii. 1. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

NEW TESTAMENT.

Matt. xxiv. 29. Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

John i. 3. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made.

Col. i. 15. Who is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of every creature.

Rom. viii. 29. Whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.

Heb. i. 3. Who being the brightness. of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power.

Heb. ii. 7. Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownest him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet.

Acts xiv. 17. Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Jas. i. 17. Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights.

Heb. xi. 3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

Col. i. 16. For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are

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