his handmaid, nor his ox, nor nor his maid-servant, nor his
his
ass, nor any thing that is ox, nor his ass, nor any thing
his.
that is his.

Appendix to each of the Commandments.

Ex 20, 5-6 I am the Lord thy God, I am the Lord thy God, Dt 5, 9-10 Mighty, Jealous, visiting the a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third their children unto the third and fourth generation of and fourth generation to them that hate Me :- And them that hate Me,-And showing mercy unto thou- showing mercy unto many sands to them that love Me, thousands to them that love and keep My Command- Me, and keep My Commandments. ments.

A

7. GOD STRICTLY REQUIRES THE KEEPING OF HIS
COMMANDMENTS.

Mt 19, 17 If thou wilt enter into ments, and thou shalt live.
Life, keep the command- This do, and thou shalt Lu 10, 28
live.

14

ments.

1 K13, 13- Thou hast done foolishly, God will render to every Ro 2, 6-8 and hast not kept the com- man according to His works.-mandments of the Lord thy To them indeed, who accordGod. Therefore thy king-ing to patience in good work, dom shall not continue. seek glory, and honour, and

1 C 2,9

Eye hath not seen, nor ear incorruption, Eternal Life. heard, neither hath it entered -But to them that are coninto the heart of man, what tentious, and who obey not things God hath prepared the truth, but give credit to for them that love Him. iniquity, wrath, and indigMt 11, 28- Come to Me, all you that nation.

30

Ma 1,6

Pv 7, 2

27

labour, and are burdened, I will take away the stony Ez 36,26-
and I will refresh you.-heart out of your flesh, and
Take up My yoke upon you, will give you a heart of
and learn of Me, because I flesh. And I will put My
am meek and humble of Spirit in the midst of you,
heart, and you shall find rest and I will cause you to walk
for your
souls. For My in My commandments, and
yoke is sweet and My burden to keep My judgments, and
light.
do them.

The son honoureth the In the head of the Book Ps 39, 8-9
father, and the servant his it is written of Me-That I
master: if then I be a should do Thy Will. O my
Father, where is My honour ? God, I have desired it, and
and if I be a Master, where Thy Law in the midst of
is My fear?
my heart.

Son, keep My command

You have not chosen Me, Jn 15,16

Ga 5, 13

1 Pt 2, 16

2 C3, 17

Ro 6, 20,

22

Jn 6, 38

but I have chosen you; that bring forth fruit; and your
you should go, and should fruit should remain.

8. THE LIBERTY OF THE SONS OF GOD CLASHES
NOT WITH FILIAL SUBJECTION;
WITHOUT FREE ACT OF THE WILL.

1.

NO SIN

[than honey in my mouth.

You, brethren, have been I have been delighted in Ps 118,14 called unto liberty only the way of Thy Testimonies make not liberty an occasion as in all riches. to the flesh.

As free, and not as making
liberty a cloak for malice,
but as the servants of God.

Where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty.

II.

My son, hast thou sinned? Eci 21, 1
Do so no more.

Go not after thy lusts.
Behold, thou art made

When you were the ser- whole sin no more.

:

Eci 18,30

Jn 5, 14

vants of sin, you were free Awake, ye just, and sin 1C 15, 34
men to justice.-But now not.

being made free from sin, and Let not sin reign in your Ro 6, 12
become servants to God, you mortal body, so as to obey
have your fruit unto sancti-the lusts thereof.

drawn

away and

fication, and the end Life Every man is tempted Ja 1, 14
Everlasting.
by his own concupiscence,
I came down from Heaven being
not to do My Own Will, but allured.
the Will of Him that sent Then when concupiscence Ja 1, 15
hath conceived, it bringeth

Me.

Ps 61, 1-2 Shall not my soul be sub-forth sin.

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ject to God? for from Him If we sin wilfully after He 10,26-
is my Salvation.-For He is having received the know-
my God and my Saviour; He ledge of the Truth, there is
is My Protector, I shall be now left no sacrifice for sin.
moved no more.
-But a certain dreadful

Ps 118, 103 How sweet are Thy expectation of judgment.
Words to my palate! more

Pv 3, 2122

Eci 44,20,

22

9. GOD'S COMMANDMENTS

I.

(See p. 183.)

ARE POSSIBLE IN

PRACTICE; CHARITY, THE FULFILMENT OF THE LAW, IS NOT LOST BY SLIGHT FAILINGS. who kept the Law of the Keep the Law and coun- Most High, and was in covsel-And there shall be life enant with Him.-Thereto thy soul, and grace to thy fore by an oath He gave him glory in his posterity.

mouth.

There was not found the like to Abraham in glory,

I can do all things in Him Ph 4, 13 Who strengtheneth me.

Ge 6, 9

Ge 17, 1

Dt 30, 11

Js 11, 15

3 K 14, 8

4 K 23,3

Ps 17, 22

Ex 36, 27

3K 14, 8

Lu 1,6

Ps 36, 7

Ja 1,5-7

Noe was a just and per-blame.
fect man in his generation,
he walked with God.

All these have I kept from Mt 19, 20 my youth.

The Lord said unto him: Remember how I have
Walk before Me, and be walked
perfect.

before Thee in Truth, and with a perfect

This commandment which heart.
I command thee is not above
thee.

:

Is 38, 3

My yoke is sweet and My Mt 11, 30 burden light.

He [Josue] accomplished This is the Charity of 1J5,3 all he left not one thing God, that we keep His comundone of all the command-mandments: and His comments which the Lord had mandments are not heavy. commanded Moses. I have run the way of Thy Ps 118,32

My servant David kept commandments. My commandments, and Give me understanding, Ps118,34 followed Me with all his and I will search Thy Law, and I will keep it with my

covenant with the Lord to He that loveth His neigh- Ro 13,8 walk after the Lord and to bour, hath fulfilled the

keep His commandments, Law.

and His testimonies, and His We know that we have 1J 3. 14 ceremonies with all their passed from death to life,

heart and with all their because we love the bre

soul.

I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not done wickedly against my God.

thren; He that loveth not,
abideth in death.

He that keepeth His 1J2,5
Word, in him in very deed

I will put My Spirit in the the Charity of God is per-
midst of you, and I will fected.

cause you to walk in My Let us therefore, as many Ph 3, 15
commandments, and to keep as are perfected, be thus
my judgments, and do them. minded.

and

39

Thou hast not been as My I am sure that neither Ro 8, 38 servant David, who kept My death nor life, nor angels, commandments, fol- nor principalities,-Nor any lowed Me, with all his heart, other creature, shall be able doing that which was well- to separate us from the love pleasing in My sight.

of God.

They were both just before A just man shall fall seven Pu 24, 16 God, walking in all the times, and shall rise again; commandments and justifi- but the wicked shall fall cations of the Lord without down into evil. (See page 280.) 10.-ON PRAYER.

Be subject to the and pray to Him.

If any of you want

Lord dom, let him ask of God,
Who giveth to all abundantly,
wis- and upbraideth not: and it

Ps 33, 16, 18

Mt 26, 44

2 T1, 11

Mt 21, 22

shall be given him.-But let in truth.

him ask in faith, nothing For thy former sins also Eci 20, 1 wavering for he that waver- pray that they may be for

:

eth is like a wave of the sea, given thee.

20

that is moved and carried Again I say to you, that if Mt 18,19-
about by the wind.-There- two of you shall agree upon
fore, let not that man earth, concerning any thing
think that he shall receive whatsoever they shall ask, it
anything of the Lord. shall be done for them by My

The eyes of the Lord are Father Who is in Heaven.-
upon the just and His ears For where there are two or
unto their prayers.-The three gathered together in
just cried, and the Lord My Name, there am I in the
heard them and delivered midst of them.

:

them out of all their trou- He said to them: The Lu 19, 2
bles.
harvest indeed is great, but

:

Christ leaving them, went the labourers are few. Pray
again and He prayed the ye therefore the Lord of the
third time, saying the self-harvest, that He send labour-
same word.
ers into His harvest.

We pray always for you: And now, O Lord Almighty, Ba 3, 1, 3 that our God would make the God of Israel, the soul in you worthy of His calling, anguish, and the troubled and fulfil all the good plea-spirit crieth to Thee.-For sure of His goodness and Thou remainest for ever, and the work of faith in power. shall we perish everlastingly? All things whatsoever you This is the confidence which 1/5,14-15 shall ask in prayer, believ- we have in Him; that whating, you shall receive. soever we shall ask, according 1 T4, 4-5 Every creature of God is to His will, He heareth us. good, and nothing to be re- And we know that He hearjected that is received with eth us, whatsoever we ask : thanksgiving:-For it is sanc- we know that we have the tified by the Word of God petitions which we request and prayer. Behold we come to Thee, for Thou art the Lord our God.

Je 3, 22

of Him.

Thou shalt pray to Him,
and He will hear thee.
Do not multiply to speak

Jb 22, 27

1K2, 3

Da 9, 3, 17 I set my face to the Lord lofty things, boasting: let my God, to pray and make old matters depart from your supplication with fasting, and mouth: for the Lord is a sackcloth, and ashes. - O God of all knowledge, and to our God, hear the supplica- Him are thoughts prepared. tion of Thy servant, and Far from me be this sin 1 K12, 23 his prayers and show Thy against the Lord, that I face upon Thy Sanctuary should cease to pray for you. which is desolate, for Thy For the Lord will be Ps 134, 14 own sake. entreated in favour of His

Eci 37, 19

Pray to the Most High, servants. that He may direct thy way You that are mindful of Is 62, 6-7

the Lord, hold not your offend less.
peace, And give Him no
silence till He establish, and

(See p. 370.)

IMPORTUNITY IN PRAYER.

till He make Jerusalem a He spoke also a parable to Lu 18,1-2
praise in the earth.
them, that we ought always
Every one that calleth to pray, and not to faint.-
upon My Name, I have Saying:

created him for My glory, I

Is 43,7

There was a judge in a cer- Lu 18,2-3 tain city, who feared not God,

have formed him, and made
him.

Ps 118,147 I prevented the dawning nor

Ps 60, 10

Ps 144, 18

Eci 2, 12

Eci 3, 4

Eci 7, 10

Eci 17, 22

Da 10, 3

Nu 6, 2

Za 8, 19

regarded man.-And

of the day, and cried: be- there was a certain widow in
cause in Thy words I very that city, and she came to him,
much hoped.
saying: Avenge me of my
adversary.

In what day soever I shall call upon Thee, behold I know Thou art my God.

But afterward

The Lord is nigh unto all And he would not for aLu 18, 4-5 them that call upon Him: to long time. all that call upon Him in he said within himself: Altruth. though I fear not God, nor Who hath called upon regard man,-Yet because Him, and He despised him ? this widow is troublesome to -For God is a Protector to me, I will avenge her, lest all that seek Him in truth. continually coming she weary me.

He that loveth God, shall obtain pardon of his sins by prayer, and shall refrain himself from them, and shall be heard in the prayer of days.

Neglect not to pray, and to give alms.

And the Lord said: Hear Lu 18, 6-8 what the unjust judge saith:

And will not God revenge His elect who cry to Him day and night: and will He have patience in their regard? Make thy prayer before I say to you that He will the face of the Lord, and quickly revenge them.

11.-FASTING AND ABSTINENCE.

I eat no desirable bread, fifth, and the fast of the
and neither flesh, nor wine seventh, and the fast of the
entered into my mouth. tenth shall be to the House
When a man, or woman, of Juda, joy and gladness,
shall make a vow to be sanc- and great solemnities.

tified, and will consecrate Can the children of the Mt 9, 15
themselves to the Lord, they Bridegroom mourn, as long
shall abstain from wine and as the Bridegroom is with
from everything that can them? But the days will
make a man drunk.
come when the Bridegroom
The fast of the fourth shall be taken away from
month, and the fast of the them: and then they shall