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For the wages of sin is death: but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord, Rom. vi. 23. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name, John xx. 31. That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus, Eph. ii. 7.

Job xxii. 21. I will hear what God the LORD will speak for he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly. Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together, righteousness and peace have kissed each other, Psal. İxxxv. 8-10. Or let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; and he shall make peace with me, Isa. xxvii. 5. And the work of righteousness shall be Δι ̓ οὗ καὶ τὴν προσαγωγὴν ἐσχήκαμεν peace, and the effect of righteousness τῇ πίστει εἰς τὴν χάριν ταύτην ἐν ᾗ ἑστή quietness and assurance for ever, καμεν, καὶ καυχώμεθα ἐπ ̓ ἐλπίδι τῆς δόxxxii. 17. O that thou hadst heark-ns To OOU. ened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy

righteousness as the waves of the sea, xlviii. 18. There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked, 22. And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children, liv. 13. For ye shall go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands, lv. 12. And all things are of God who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 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 unto God, 2 Cor. v. 18-20. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Gal. v. 22. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus, Phil. iv. 7. Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, Heb. xiii. 20. And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed-unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God, Jam. ii. 23. See also on on John xiv. ver. 27.

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binto this grace wherein we stand, and By a whom also we have access by faith rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

a In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him, Eph. iii. 12. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, By a new and living way which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, Heb. t. 19, 20. For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, 1 Pet. iii. 18. See also on John x. ver. 7.

b Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life, Rom. v. 9, 10. There is, therefore, now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit, viii. 1. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called; and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is

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Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, 30-39. Who art thou that judgest another man's servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up for God is able to make him stand, xiv. 4. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life, John v. 24. Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the Gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand: By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain, 1 Cor. xv. 1, 2. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having done all, to stand, Eph. vi. 13. To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, 1 Pet. i. 4, 5.

And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us, ver. 5. For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen, is not hope; for what a man seeth, why doth be yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it, viii. 24, 25. Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing in

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stant in prayer, xii. 12. Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost, xv. 13. For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth; And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me, Job xix. 25-27. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope. For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou ́suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou wilt shew me the path of life; in thy presence is fulness of joy; and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore, Psal. xvi. 9-11. for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness, xvii. 15. The wicked is driven away in his wickedness; but the righteous hath hope in his death, Prov. xiv. 32. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work, 2 Thess. ii. 16, 17. But Christ as a son over his own house : whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end, Heb. iii. 6. That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the veil, vi. 18, 19. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though

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now for a season, if need be, ye are | light affliction, which is but for a moin heaviness through manifold temp-ment, worketh for us a far more extations: That the trial of your faith, ceeding and eternal weight of glory, being much more precious than of iv. 17. To him that overcometh will gold that perisheth, though it be tried I grant to sit with me in my throne, with fire, might be found unto praise even as I also overcame, and am set and honour and glory at the appear- down with my Father in his throne, ing of Jesus Christ. Whom having Rev. iii. 21. And I heard a great not seen, ye love; in whom, though voice out of heaven, saying, Behold, now ye see him not, yet believing, the tabernacle of God is with men, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and and he will dwell with them, and full of glory: Receiving the end of they shall be his people, and God your faith, even the salvation of your himself shall be with them, and be souls, 1 Pet. i. 3-9. Behold, what their God, xxi. 3. Having the glory manner of love the Father hath be- of God; and her light was like unto stowed upon us, that we should be a stone most precious, even like a called the sons of God! therefore the jasper-stone clear as crystal, 11. And world knoweth us not, because it the city had no need of the sun, nei knew him not. Beloved, now are ther of the moon, to shine in it: for we the sons of God; and it doth not the glory of God did lighten it, and yet appear what we shall be: but we the Lamb is the light thereof, 23. know that, when he shall appear, we And they shall see his face; and his shall be like him; for we shall see name shall be in their foreheads. And him as he is. And every man that there shall be no night there; and hath this hope in him, purifieth him- they need no candle, neither light of self even as he is pure, 1 John iii. the sun; for the Lord God giveth 1-3. them light; and they shall reign for ever and ever, xxii. 4, 5.

d To them, who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life, Rom. ii. 7. For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God, iii. 23. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint- heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us, viii. 17, 18. Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory, Psal. lxxiii. 24. His lord said unto him, Well done thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy Lord, Matt. xxv. 21. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life, John v. 24. But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord, 2 Cor. iii. 18. For our

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Οὐ μόνον δὲ, ἀλλὰ καὶ καυχώμεθα ἐν ταῖς θλίψεσιν· εἰδότες ὅτι ἡ θλίψις ὑπο μovv narsPYÁZETAI

And not only so, a but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulatim worketh patience;

a Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay in all these things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us, Rom. viii. 35-37. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for their's is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you, Matt. v. 10--12. Blessed are ye when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from

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tions, Jam. i. 2. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him, 12. But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled, 1 Pet. iii. 14. Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf. For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the Gospel of God, iv. 16, 17.

b For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby, Heb. xii. 10, 11. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience, Jam. i. 3.

their company, and shall reproach you, | joy when ye fall into divers temptaand cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets, Luke vi. 22, 23. Then they that gladly received his word were baptized; and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls, Acts ii. 41. Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep; In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren; In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. Beside those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended and I burn not? If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities, 2 Cor. xi. 23-30. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong, xii. 9, 10. Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory, Eph. iii. 13. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake, Phil. i. 29. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye, joy, and rejoice with me, ii. 17, 19. My brethren, count it all VOL. II.

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Ἡ δὲ ὑπομονὴ δοκιμὴν, ἡ δὲ δοκιμὴ ἐλπίδα·

And a patience, experience, band experience, hope:

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a For 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. Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are forted of God. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation, 2 Cor. i. 4-6. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body the dying of the

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Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body. For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. So then death worketh in us, but life in you, iv. 8-12. As unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed; As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things, vi. 9, 10. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him, Jam. i. 12. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations: That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ, 1 Pet. i. 6, 7. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you, v. 10.

bAnd it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong, and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight, Josh. x. 24, 25. And David said unto Saul, Thy servant kept his father's sheep, and. there came a lion and a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock; And I went after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth; and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew him. Thy servant slew both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, seeing he hath defied the armies of the living God. David said moreover, The LORD that de

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A. D. 60. livered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said, Go, and the LORD be with thee, 1 Sam. xvii. 34-37. When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came up on me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident, Psal. xxvii. 2, 3. When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and of praise, with a multitude that kept holyday. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance, xlii. 4, 5. But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more, lxxi. 14. Now also, when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hath done great things: O God, who is like unto thee! Thou, which hath shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness, and comfort me on every side. I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel. My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed. My tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt, 18-24. We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; Always bearing about in the body, the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body, 2 Cor. iv. 8-10. At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may

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