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The Moral Law.

LESSON II.

MONDAY.-Deut. xxxiii. 2.-And he said, the Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from Mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

TUESDAY.-Neh. ix. 13.-Thou camest down also upon Mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: WEDNESDAY.-Rom. ii. 15.-Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another. THURSDAY.-Prov. xxviii. 9.-He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination.

FRIDAY.-Prov. xxix. 18.-Where there is no vision the people perish: but he that keepeth the law happy is he.

SATURDAY.-Matt. v. 17.-Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. SABBATH.-Matt. v. 18.-For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the

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Use of the Law.

LESSON III.

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MONDAY.-Deut. xxix. 29.-The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever; that we may do all the words of this law.

TUESDAY.-Ps. cxix. 34.-Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.

WEDNESDAY.-Prov. xiii. 14.-The law of the wise is a fountain of * life, to depart from the snares of death.

THURSDAY.-Rom. ii. 13.-For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

FRIDAY.-Rom. v. 20.-Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound. SATURDAY.-Rom. vii. 7.-What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin but by the law for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not

covet.

SABBATH. Gal. iii. 19.-Wherefore then serveth the law? It was added because of transgressions, till the seed should come to whom the promise was made; and it was ordained by angels in the hand of a mediator.

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Deut. xxxii. 46. Ps. cv. 45. Ps. cxix. 44. Ps. cxix. 55. Ps. cxix. 113. Mal. iv. 4. Gal. iii. 24.

PETERBOROUGH. C. M.

PSALM CXIX.

O that the Lord would guide my ways, O that my God would grant me grace,

To keep his statutes still!

To know and do his will.

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Love, the whole of God's Law.

LESSON IV.

MONDAY.-Deut. vi. 5.—And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. TUESDAY.-Rom. xiii. 10.-Love worketh no ill to his neighbor: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

WEDNESDAY.-Matt. xxii. 37.-Jesus saith unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.

THURSDAY.-Matt. xxii. 38.-This is the first and great command

ment.

FRIDAY.-Matt. xxii. 39.—And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

SATURDAY.-Matt. xxii. 40.-On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

SABBATH.-Rom. vii. 12.-Wherefore the law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good.

SECOND SERIES.

Deut. xi. 1. Deut. xxx. 16. Joshua xxii. 5. Prov. xxiii. 26. 1 John iv. 12. 1 John iv. 21. 1 John v. 3.

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LESSON V.

MONDAY.-Gen. xv. 14.—And also that nation whom they shall serve, will I judge, and afterward they shall come out with great substance.

TUESDAY.-Ex. xii. 41.—And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the self-same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. WEDNESDAY.-Hosea xi. 1.—When Israel was a child then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

THURSDAY.-Hosea xi. 4.-I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

FRIDAY.-Ex. xix. 18.—And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

SATURDAY.-Ex. xix. 19.—And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

SABBATH.-Deut. v. 6.-I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

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The First Commandment.

LESSON VI.

MONDAY.-Ex. xx. 3.—Thou shalt have no other gods before me. TUESDAY.-Ex. xxxiv. 14.-For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

WEDNESDAY.-Matt. iv. 10.-Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

THURSDAY.-Isa. xliii. 10.-Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no god formed, neither shall there be after me.

FRIDAY.-Deut. xxvi. 7.—And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our oppression.

SATURDAY.-PS. cxlv. 1.—I will extol thee, my God, O King; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.

SABBATH.-PS. Xcv. 6.-O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

SECOND SERIES.

Ex. vi. 7. Deut. xxix. 13. 2 Sam. xxii. 32. 1 Kings xviii. 21. 2 Chron. xx. 6. Ezra i. 3. Isa. xlv. 22.

HIGH GREEN. L. M.

WATTS. H. B. 41.

Great All in all, Eternal King,
Let me but view thy lovely face:

And all my powers shall bow, and sing
Thine endless grandeur and thy grace.

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