This is its best, its chief intent, ANALYSIS. 1 What is a precious book? Who is happy? Whose word is the Bible? Why has God given us the Bible? 2 What does the Bible tell us? Where are God's commandments written? What do the commandments teach us? 3 From what does the Bible tell us to fly? Why? To what does it point? Who dwell in heaven? What does it warn us to escape from? 4 What is the most important thing the Bible tells us ? What is the chief intent of the Bible? What is it to repent? To hate and forsake sin. The Bible. What Book ought I to love the best, THE BIBLE, What tells me of my fallen state, THE BIBLE. What points me to the Lamb of God, What warns me to abstain from sin, What teaches to relieve the poor, 53 What teaches me to love my foe, What tells me of that state of bliss, THE BIBLE. What can support my drooping head, 1 Let avarice from shore to shore, Thy word, O Lord! we value more 2 Here mines of knowledge, love, and joy, 3 The counsels of redeeming grace, 4 Here light descending from above, Here promises of heavenly love, 5 Our num'rous griefs are here redrest, Nought we can ask to make us blest, 6 For these inestimable gains, ANALYSIS. 1 What does avarice mean? The love of money. What god does the covetous man worship or pursue? Gold--the riches of this world. What commandment do covetous people break? What commandment do those break who make gold their god? Where are the richest mines of gold and silver and precious stones? In India and Peru. What should you value more than all these mines? 2 What mines are opened to our sight in the Bible? What are the mines of knowledge, love, and joy compared to? To purest gold without alloy, and gems divinely bright. 3 What do the leaves of the Bible unfold? What is redeeming grace? The grace that saves from hell. Whose lovely face do our raptured eyes behold in the Bible? 4 What descends from above in the Bible? What does that light direct? What do you inean by doubtful feet? Uncertainty of the right road., What meet our ardent wishes? 5 What are here redressed or removed? What are supplied? Is any thing denied us in this book? 6 For what should we search with eager pains? These inestimable gains. What do these gains enrich? If we search with eager pains, of what may we be assured? 55 MISCELLANEOUS. Love and duty to Parents. 1 My Father, my Mother, I know Who it was, that so tenderly smil❜d; 3 I am sorry that ever I could Be wicked, and give you a pain ; 56 Against Lying. 1 O! 'tis a lovely thing for youth 2 But liars we can never trust, Tho' they should speak the thing that's true: And he that does one fault at first, 3 Have we not known, nor heard, nor read, ANALYSIS. 1 What is lovely in youth? What should you fear? What should you speak? What will we then trust? 2 Whom can we never trust? Can we not trust them when they speak the truth? Why? Because we don't know when they are telling truth or lies. How many faults does he commit that does a fault and then lies to hide it? 3 What have you read, or heard in the Bible God abhors? What is deceit? Making believe what is not true. What does wrong mean? That which we ought not to do. Who was struck dead? Why was he struck dead? 4 What happened to his wife? What did she do? |