Ha 1, 13

Is 5, 14

Gather them together as best ointments: and they sheep for a sacrifice, and are not concerned for the prepare them for the day of affliction of Joseph.—The slaughter. faction of the luxurious ones Why lookest Thou upon shall be taken away. them that do unjust things, The wicked man is reserved 7621, and holdest Thy peace when to the day of destruction, the wicked devoureth the and he shall be brought to man that is more just than the day of wrath. himself? Therefore hath hell enAm 6, 1-7 Wo to you that are wealthy larged her soul, and opened in Sion, and to you that have her mouth without any confidence in the mountain bounds, and their strong of Samaria: ye great men, ones, and their people, and heads of the people, that go their high and glorious ones in with state into the House shall go down into it. of Israel. You that are! Wo to you that are rich: Lu 6, 24separated unto the evil day : for you have your consoland that approach to the ation.-Wo to you that are throne of iniquity. - You filled: for you shall hunger. that sleep upon beds of Wo to you that laugh now: ivory, and are wanton on for you shall mourn and your couches that eat the weep.-Wo to you when men lambs out of the flock, and shall bless you: For accordthe calves out of the midst ing to these things did their of the herd.-You that sing fathers to the false prophets. to the sound of the psaltery: Son, remember that thou Lu 16, 25 they have thought them- didst receive good things in selves to have instruments thy life time, and likewise of music like David.-That Lazarus evil things: but drink wine in bowls, and now he is comforted, and anoint themselves with the thou art tormented.

Pv 11, 3

Pv 17, 13

W3, 10

Eci 7, 19

Eci 12, 3

13.-DIVINE THREATENINGS.

The deceitfulness of the evil, and that giveth no wicked shall destroy them. alms.

26

He that rendereth evil for He that loveth danger Eci 3, 27 good, evil shall not depart shall perish in it. from his house.

The inheritance of the Eci41, 9

The wicked shall be pun- children of sinners shall
ished according to their own perish, and with their pos-
devices: who have neglected terity shall be a perpetual
the just, and have revolted reproach.
from the Lord.

Wo to them that are of a Eci 2,14-
Humble thy spirit very double heart, and to wicked 17
much for the vengeance on lips, and to the hands that
the flesh of the ungodly is do evil, and to the sinner
fire and worms.
that goeth on the earth two
There is no good for him ways.-Wo to them that are
that is always occupied in faint-hearted, and who be-

lieve not God: and therefore (house, and shall consume
shall not be protected by it, with the timber thereof,
Him.-Wo to them that have and the stones thereof.

lost patience, and that have Wo to them that make Is 10,1-3 forsaken the right ways, wicked laws: and when they have gone aside into crooked write, write injustice.-To ways. And what will they oppress the poor in judgdo when the Lord shall ment, and do violence to the begin to examine ? cause of the humble of My Is 2, 11-12 The lofty eyes of man are people that widows might humbled, and the haughti- be their prey, and that they ness of men shall be made might rob the fatherless.to stoop: and the Lord What will you do in the day alone shall be exalted in that of visitation, and of the day. Because the day of calamity which cometh from the Lord of Hosts shall be afar? To whom will ye flee upon every one that is proud for help? and where will ye and high-minded, and upon leave your glory? every one that is arrogant, Behold, the day of the Is 13,9,11 and he shall be humbled. Lord shall come, a cruel Wo to the wicked unto day, and full of indignation, evil for the reward of his and of wrath, and fury, to hands shall be given him. lay the land desolate, and to Wo to you that call evil destroy the sinners thereof good, and good evil: that out of it. And I will visit put darkness for light, and the evils of the world, and light for darkness: that put against the wicked for their bitter for sweet, and sweet iniquity, and I will make for bitter.-Wo to you that the pride of infidels to cease, are mighty to drink wine, and will bring down the arand stout men at drunken-rogancy of the mighty. ness.-That justify the Wo to you that are deep Is 29, 15 wicked for gifts, and take of heart, to hide your

Is 3, 11

Is 5, 20, 22-23

Za 5, 1,

3-4

away the justice of the just
from him.

counsel from the Lord: and
their works are in the dark,
and they say: Who seeth us,
and who knoweth us?

I turned, and lifted up my eyes and I saw, and behold a volume flying :-This is Wo to thee that spoilest, Is 33,1 the curse, that goeth forth shalt not thou thyself also over the face of the earth: be spoiled ? and thou that for every thief shall be despisest, shalt not thyself judged as is there written also be despised? When and every one that sweareth thou shalt have made an in like manner shall be end of spoiling, thou shalt judged by it. And it shall be spoiled: when being weacome to the house of the ried thou shalt cease to thief, and to the house of despise, thou shalt be dehim that sweareth falsely spised.

by My Name: and it shall Wo to him that buildeth Je 22, 13 remain in the midst of his up his house by injustice,

and his chambers not in If any one abide not in Jn 15,6
judgment: that will op- Me: he shall be cast forth as
press his friend
without a branch, and shall wither,
cause, and will not pay him and they shall gather him
his wages.
up, and cast him into the
Wo to the pastors, that fire, and he burneth.
destroy and tear the sheep So shall it be at the end Mt 13, 49
of My pasture, saith the of the world. The Angels
Lord.
shall go out, and shall separ-

if

If you will not hear, and ate the wicked from among
you will not lay it to heart, the just.

to give glory to My Name, And the unprofitable ser- Mt 25, 30
saith the Lord of Hosts: I vant cast ye out into the ex-
will send poverty upon you, terior darkness. There shall
and I will curse your bless-be weeping and gnashing of
ings, yea, I will curse them: teeth.
because you have not laid it
to heart.

51

If that evil servant should Mt 24, 48say in his heart: My Lord is Every one shall die for long a-coming :-And shall his own iniquity. begin to strike his fellowI will come to you in servants, and shall eat and judgment, and will be a drink with drunkards :-The speedy witness against sor-Lord of that servant shall cerers, and adulterers, and come in a day that he hopeth false swearers, and them not, and at an hour that he that oppress the hireling in knoweth not:-And shall his wages, the widows, and separate him, and appoint the fatherless: and oppress his portion with the hypothe stranger, and have not crites. There shall be weepfeared Me, saith the Lord ing and gnashing of teeth. of Hosts. It is fearful thing to fall He 10, 31 Hear this, you that crush into the hands of the Living the poor, and make the God. needy of the land to fail.

9

Who will render to every Ro 2,6,8The day of the Lord is man according to his works. great and very terrible: and-To them that are contenwho can stand it ? tious, and who obey not the

For behold the day shall truth, but give credit to come kindled as a furnace iniquity, wrath, and indigand all the proud, and all nation.-Tribulation and anthat do wickedly shall be guish upon every soul of man stubble; and the day that that doeth evil.

cometh shall set them on He that doeth an injury Cl3, 25 fire, saith the Lord of Hosts, shall receive for that which

it shall not leave them root,
nor branch.

Every tree, therefore, that
yieldeth not good fruit,
shall be cut down, and cast
into the fire.

he hath done unjustly; for
there is no respect of persons
with God.

The countenance of the 1 Pt 3,12
Lord is against them that do
Jevil things.

And if the just man shall we, who turn away from
scarcely be saved, where Him that speaketh to us
shall the wicked and the from Heaven.
sinner appear?

But the heavens and the 2 Pt 3, 7
See that you refuse not earth, which are now, by the
Him Who speaketh. For if same Word are kept in store,
they escaped not who re- reserved unto fire against the
fused him that spoke upon day of judgment and per-
earth, much more shall not dition of wicked men.

14.--NAMES AND TYPES OF THE WICKED.

1. Unfaithful children.
2. A perverse genera-
tion.

3. Senseless beasts.
4. Fools.

5. An exasperating gen-
eration.

6. Authors of their own
miseries.

7. A tempest that pass-
eth away.
Birds caught by the
fowler.

8.

9. Transgressors.
10. Roaring lions.
11. Hungry bears.
12. The unjust.

13. Children without un-
standing.

14. Lovers of evil things.
15. Exiles from the Eter-
nal Providence.

16. Sinners.
17. Dry trees in the
wilderness.

18. Wild beasts.
19. Earthen pots.
20. Wolves.

21. Dogs.

22. Deicides.

23. Fuel for the fire.

24. Prevaricators.

25. Shameless people.
26. A bundle of thorns.
27. Wild oxen that are
snared.

28. Wandering sheep.
29. Seers of vain things.

30. The raging sea.
31. The wicked.

32. A prey.

33. Robbers in
wilderness.

34. Despisers of God.
35. Fallow ground.

36. Foolish and senseless
children.

37. The slain.

38. Faces harder than the
rock.

43. Fowlers.

Is 57, 20

Is 57, 21

Je 2, 14

the

Je 3, 2

Je 3, 20

Je 4, 3

Je 4, 22

Je 4, 31

Je 5, 3

39. Forsaken of God.

Je 5,7

40. Stubble.

Je 5, 12

41. Wood for burning.

Je 5, 14

42. Foolish people.

Je 5, 21

Je 5, 26

Mt 10, 1

67. Unclean spirits.

Mt 10, 8

68. The sick.

Mt 11, 5

69. The lame.

Mt 23, 16

Mt 23, 15

Mt 23, 27

Mt 24, 15

Mt 11, 5

70. The dead.

Mt 12, 34

71. Generation of vipers.

Mt 13, 25

72. Cockle.

Mt 15, 30

73. The blind.

82. Lamps without oil.
83. Wicked servants.
84. Servants of sin.
85. Enemies of God.
86. Christicides.
87. Children of wrath.
88. Deniers of the Lord.
89. Captives of the devil.
90. Haters of the Light.

-A PRAYER FOR GRACE TO FLEE SIN.

Eci 23, 1-6 O Lord, Father, and So-[abound, and I fall before
vereign Ruler of my life, my adversaries, and my
leave me not to their coun- enemy rejoice over me?
sel nor suffer me to fall. O Lord, Father, and God
by them.
of my life, leave me not to
Who will set scourges over their devices.
my thoughts, and the disci- Give me not haughtiness
pline of wisdom over my of my eyes, and turn away
heart, that they spare me from me all coveting.

not in their ignorances, and Take from me the greedi-
that their sins may not ness of the belly, and let not
appear:
the lusts of the flesh take
Lest my ignorances in- hold of me, and give me not
crease and my offences be over to a shameless and fool-
multiplied, and my sins ish mind.

PART II.

ON JUSTIFICATION.

Ro 5, 10

Ga 1, 4

Ep 2, 2

2 Pt 2, 1

2 Ti 2, 26

JUSTIFICATION is the act by which one is made just. The word Justice has many meanings, but it always signifies a certain "rectitude of order." The Justice which is the term of Justification means that rectitude of order by which man's lower nature is subjected to his higher nature, and his higher nature is subjected to God. Justice, taken in this sense, may be conferred