Ro 11, 20

Eci 18, 27

76 31, 23

Mt 10, 28

Thou standest by faith. Him that can destroy both
Be not high-minded, but soul and body into hell.
fear.

Who shall not fear Thee, Je 10, 7 A wise man will fear in O King of nations? For everything, and in the days Thine is the glory: among of sins will beware of sloth. all the wise men of the naI have always feared God tions, and in all their kingas waves swelling over me, doms, there is none like unto and His weight I was not Thee. able to bear.

If the just man shall 1 Pt 4, 18 Fear ye not them that kill scarcely be saved, where shall the body, and are not able to the ungodly and the sinner kill the soul; but rather fear appear?

9. CRIES OF THE SOUL YEARNING AFTER THE

FEAR OF THE LORD.

Ps 118,120_ _Pierce Thou my flesh with better than gold; and pur-
Thy fear; for I am afraid of chase prudence, for it is more
Thy judgments.
precious than silver.

Ps 118,63 I am a partaker with all
them that fear Thee.

Ps 21, 21

Ps 118, 38

Ps 2, 11

Who shall not fear Thee, Ap 15, 4 O Lord, and magnify Thy Deliver, O God, my soul Name? for Thou only art from the sword; save me from the lion's mouth.

Holy.

Teach me goodness and Ps 118, 66

Establish Thy Word to Thy discipline and knowledge, for
servant in Thy fear.
I have believed Thy Com-

Serve ye the Lord with mandments.

fear, and rejoice unto Him I will come into Thy House, Ps 5, 8 with trembling.

Ps 118,143 Trouble and anguish have found me: Thy Command

Ps 79, 4

Ps 85, 11

I will worship towards Thy

Holy Temple in Thy fear.

Arise, O Lord; save me,

Ps 3, 7

ments are my meditation. O my God.

Convert us, O God; and When my strength shall Ps 70, 9 show us Thy face, and we fail, do not Thou forsake shall be saved.

me.

Let my heart rejoice, that Lord, save us, we perish. Mt 8, 25 it may fear Thy Name. Be to me, O Lord, a power- Eci 34, 19 Ps 118,146 I cried unto Thee: save ful Protector and Strong me, that I may keep Thy Stay, a Defence from the Commandments. heat, and a Cover from the sun at noon.

Je 17, 14

Po 16, 16

Jb 20, 11

(See words Salutary Fear,
The Sword of the Spirit.)

THE MALIGNANCY OF VICE, AND MEANS FOR

ITS DESTRUCTION.

His bones shall be filled and they shall sleep with him with the vices of his youth, in the dust.

Is 1, 4

Je 30, 12

Je 8, 6

Ga 5, 24

Wo to the sinful nation, For when you were servants
a people laden with iniquity, of sin you were free men to
a wicked seed, ungracious justice.

children! they have forsaken Mortify your members
the Lord, they have blas- which are upon the earth,
phemed the Holy One of fornication, uncleanness, lust,
Israel, they are gone away evil concupiscence, and co-
backwards.
vetousness, which is the ser-
Thus saith the Lord: Thy vice of idols.
bruise is incurable, thy wound
is very grievous.

C73, 6

I beseech you therefore, Ro 12, 1 brethren, by the mercy of There is none that doth God, that you present your penance for his sin, saying: bodies a living sacrifice, holy, What have I done? They pleasing unto God, your reaare all turned to their own sonable service. course, as a horse rushing to the battle.

They that are Christ's have crucified their flesh, with the vices and concupiscences.

I came not to send peace Mt 10,34 but the sword.

I chastise my body, and 1C9,27 bring it into subjection; lest perhaps, when I have preached

Ro6, 19-20 I speak a human thing, to others, I myself should
because of the infirmity of become a castaway.

your flesh. For as you have We are cast down, but we 2 C4,9-10
yielded your members to perish not:-Always bearing
serve uncleanness and ini- about in our body the morti-
quity unto iniquity, so now fication of Jesus, that the
yield your members to serve Life also of Jesus may be
justice unto sanctification.-made manifest in our bodies.

11.-EXHORTATIONS TO ROOT UP VICE AND TO
CONQUER PASSIONS.

Eci 18, 30- Go not after thy lusts, but because of the wickedness of
turn away from thy own your thoughts.

31

Dt 10, 16

Je 4, 4

will. If thou give to thy If thy right eye scandalise Mt 5, 29
soul her desires, she will thee, pluck it out and cast it
make thee a joy to thy ene-
mies.

Circumcise the foreskin of your heart, and stiffen your neck no more.

from thee. For it is expedi-
ent for thee that one of thy
members should perish, rather
than thy whole body be cast
into hell.

25

Be circumcised to the Amen, amen I say to you, Jn 12, 24Lord, and take away the unless the grain of wheat foreskins of your hearts, ye falling into the ground die, men of Juda, and ye inhabit- itself remaineth alone. But ants of Jerusalem, lest My if it die, it bringeth forth indignation come forth like much fruit.-He that loveth fire, and burn, and there be his life shall lose it; and he none that can quench it; that hateth his life in this

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world keepeth it unto Life jedness, undo the bundles that Eternal. oppress, let them that are 2 Ti 2,11- A faithful saying. For if broken go free, and break we be dead with Him, we asunder every burden. shall live also with him.-—If If thou wilt take away the Is 58,9-10 we suffer, we shall also reign chain out of the midst of with Him. If we deny Him, thee, and cease to stretch out He will also deny us. the finger and to speak that He that nourisheth his which profiteth not,-Then servant delicately from his shall thy light rise up in childhood afterwards shall darkness, and thy darkness find him stubborn. shall be as the noonday.

Pv 29, 21

Is 58, 6

Je 2,5

Je 2, 13

Am 6, 14

Jn 1, 3

Loose the bands of wick

12.-SIN IS THE TURNING FROM GOD TO CREATURES.
What iniquity have your to kill souls which should
fathers found in Me, that not die, and to save souls
they have gone far from Me, alive which should not live,
and have walked after vanity, telling lies to My people
and are become vain ?
that believe lies.

They have forsaken Me, Such a man for a morsel Pv 28, 21 the Fountain of Living of bread forsaketh the Truth. Water, and have digged to themselves cisterns, broken you shall be redeemed withcisterns, that can hold no out money. water.

You were sold gratis, and Is 52, 3

You have rejoiced in a thing of naught.

Without Him was made nothing that was made.

They have turned their Je 2, 27 back to Me, and not their face; and in the time of their affliction they will say: Arise, and deliver us. They trust in a mere no- Why will you contend thing, and speak vanities. with Me in judgment? you Ez 13, 19 They violated Me among have all forsaken Me, saith My people, for a handful of the Lord. In vain have I barley and a piece of bread, struck your children.

Is 59, 4

Os 5, 11

Dt 32, 5

Mi 2, 10

Za 3, 3

13. THE UNCLEANNESS OF SIN.

Je 2, 29

30

15

Ephraim is under oppres- who bore as it were the sins sion and broken in judgment, of all the people] was clothed because he began to go after with filthy garments. filthiness. Behold, the hand of the Is 59, 1-3, They have sinned against Lord is not shortened that it Him, and are none of His cannot save, neither is His children in their filth. ear heavy that it cannot For that uncleanness of hear.-But your iniquities the land it shall be corrupted have divided between you with a grievous corruption. and your God, and your sins

Jesus [the high priest, have hid His face from you

Mt 26,67

Is 4, 3-4

Ro 13, 12

Ep 5, 8

that He should not hear.- Have no fellowship with Ep 5, 1
For your hands are defiled the unfruitful works of dark-
with blood, and your fingers ness, but rather reprove
with iniquity: your lips have them.

spoken lies, and your tongue If we say that we have 1J1, 6
uttereth iniquity. And fellowship with Him, and
truth hath been forgotten: walk in darkness, we lie, and
and he that departed from do not the truth.

evil lay open to be a prey; Return to the Lord, and Eci 17, 23
and the Lord saw, and it ap- turn away from thy injus-
peared evil in His eyes, be- tice, and greatly hate abom-
cause there is no judgment.

ination.

They did spit in His Face, For their cursing and ly- Ps 58, 14 and buffet Him, and others ing they shall be talked of struck His Face with the when they are consumed: palms of their hands [that when they are consumed by by these indignities He Thy wrath, and they shall be might wash away the filth no more. of our sins].

When thou art come into Dt 32, 16
Every one that shall be the land which the Lord thy
left in Sion and that shall God shall give thee, beware
remain in Jerusalem shall be lest thou have a mind to imi-
called holy,-If the Lord tate the abominations of
shall wash away the filth of those nations.

the daughters of Sion, and The eyes of the wicked Jb 11, 20
shall wash away the blood of shall decay, and the way to
Jerusalem out of the midst escape shall fail them, and
thereof by the spirit of judg- their hope the abomination
ment and by the spirit of of the soul.
burning.

Flee from sins as from the Eci 21, 2

The night is past, and the face of a serpent.-The
day is at hand. Let us there- teeth thereof are the teeth
fore cast off the works of of a lion killing the souls of
darkness, and put on the men.-All iniquity is like a
armour of light.
two-edged sword: there is
You were heretofore dark- no remedy for the wound
ness, but now light in the Lord. thereof.

14.-SIN DISASTROUS TO BODY AND SOUL.

Is 59, 4-5 They have conceived la- in distress, my bowels are
bour, and brought forth ini- troubled: my heart is turned
quity. They have broken within me, for I am full of
the eggs of asps, and have bitterness: abroad the sword
woven the webs of spiders: destroyeth, and at home
he that shall eat of their there is death alike.
eggs shall die; and that
which is brought out shall
be hatched.

They have laboured to
commit iniquity.

Evil pursueth sinners.
He that soweth iniquity

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Je 9, 5

Pv 13, 21

Pv 22 8

Je 2, 19

Je 30, 14

Eci 7, 1-3

Je 48, 36

Pv 28, 18

Eci 40, 14

W 5,7

shall reap evils, and with the and bloodshed, strife and
rod of His anger he shall be sword, oppressions, famine,
consumed.
and affliction, and scourges.
Thy own wickedness shall A wicked soul shall de- Eci 6, 4
reprove thee, and thy apos- stroy him that hath it, and
tasy shall rebuke thee. Know maketh him to be a joy to
thou and see that it is an his enemies, and shall lead
evil and a bitter thing for him into the lot of the
thee to have left the Lord wicked.
thy God, and that My fear We have wearied ourselves
is not with thee, saith the in the way of iniquity and
Lord the God of Hosts. destruction, and have walked
I have wounded thee with through hard ways, but the
the wound of an enemy, way of the Lord we have
with a cruel chastisement: not known. What hath pride
by reason of the multitude profited us?
of thy iniquities, thy sins are Nothing upon earth is done
hardened.
without a cause, and sorrow
Do no evils, and no evils doth not spring out of the
shall lay hold of thee: de- ground.
part from the unjust, and I remember the evils that 1 M 6,12-
evils shall depart from thee. I have done in Jerusalem,
My son, sow not evils in the from whence also I took
furrows of injustice, and away all the spoils of gold
thou shalt not reap them and of silver that were in it,
sevenfold.
and I sent to destroy the in-
Because he hath done habitants of Juda without
more than he could, therefore cause. I know therefore
they have perished.
that for this cause these
evils have found me: and
behold, I perish with great
grief in a strange land.

He that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once. Transgressors shall pine away in the end.

Jb 5, 6

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The wicked man diggeth Pv 16, 27 Eci 40, 8-9 Upon sinners are seven- evil, and in his lips is a burnfold more.-Moreover death ing fire.

Is 59, 6

Eci 9, 18

Os 8, 7

15.-SIN DEPRIVES OF MERIT OUR WORDS AND

UNDERTAKINGS.

Their webs shall not be if it should yield, strangers

for clothing, neither shall shall eat it.

they cover themselves with Whosoever sinneth hath 1J3, 6
their works, and the work of not seen Him, nor known
iniquity is in their hands.

He that shall offend in one shall lose many good things.

Him.

Ephraim feedeth upon the Os 12, 1 wind, and followeth the burn

They shall sow wind and ing heat; all the day long he
reap a whirlwind: there is multiplied lies and desola-
no standing stalk in it, the tion.
bud shall yield no meal; and

Behold, the hand of the Is 59, 1-2