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that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness : and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.
y Psal. xxiL 26. ' The meek shall eat and be satisfied ; t1iey shall praise the Lord that seek him : your heart shall live for ever.
^ Jer. I. 5. They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us joii^ our- selves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten. Psal I. 5 Gather my saints together unto me : those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.
' Acts ii. '42. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.
175. b Psal. x::viii. 7. The Lord is my strength and my sliield, my heart trusted in him, and I am helped : therefore my heart great- ly rejoiceth, and with my song will i praise him. Psal. Ixxxv. 8. 1 will
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it% beg the continuance of it**, watch against relapses*, fulfil their voivs ^ and encourage themselves to a freqUenl attendance on that ordinance ^ : but if they fiiid no pre- sent benefit, more exactly to review their preparation to, and carriage at, the sacrament ^ ; in both which, if they can approve themselves to God and their own con-
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1 will hear what Cod the Lord will speak : for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints : but let them not turn apiin to folly. 1 Cor. xi. 17. Now in this that I declare un- to you, I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. Ver. fJO. Yar tliis cause many are weak and sickly among Tou, and many sleep. Ver. SI. For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.
Ver. 21. And the children of Israc4 that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast ol unleavened bread seven d#ys with great gladness : and the Lerites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord, l^c. Acts ii. 42. And they continued sted- fastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Ver. 46. And they, continuing daily with one accord in tlie temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Ver. 47. Prai^jtig God, and having favour with all the people. —
d Psal. xxxvi. 10. O continue thy loving-kindness unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright in heart. Cant. iii. 4. It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul lov- cth : I held him, and would not let him go, until 1 had brought him into my mother '3 house, and into the
chamber of her that conceived me. 1 Chron. xxix. 18. O Lord God df Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep thi? for ever in the ima- gination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee.
•= ] Cor. X. 3. And did all eat the same spiritual meat ; Ver. 4. Aud did all drink the same spiritual drink : (for they drank of that spiritual S.ock that followed them ; and that Rock was Christ.) Ver. 5. But with many of them God was not well pleased ; for they were overthrown in tht> wilderness. Ver. 12. Wherefore, let him that- thinketh he statidetK take heed lest he fall.
f Psal. 1. 1 4. Offer unto God thanks- giving, and pay thy vows unto the most High.
8 1 Cor. li. 25. After tKe same manner also he took the cup, whea he had supped, saying, This cup i*th new testament in my blood : this Jo ye, as oft as ye drink it. In remembrance of me. Ver. 26. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come. Acts ii. 42. And they continued sted- fastly in the apostles' doctrine and fel- lowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. Ver. 'iS. And they, con- tinuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread froni house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of hear t.
h • Cant V. 1. I am come into
my garden, my sister, my spouse :
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sciences, they are to wait for the fruit of it in due time ' : but, if they see they have failed in either, they are to be humbled ^ and to attend upon it afterward with more care and diligence ',
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1 have gathered my myrrh with my spice ; I have eaten my honey-comb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk : eat, O friends ; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O be- loved. Ver. 2. 1 sleep, but my heart waketh : it is the voice of my beloved that.knocketh, saying. Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my un- defiled : for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night. Ver. 3. I have put off my coat ; how shall I put it on ? I have washed my feet ; how shall I defile them ? Ver. 4, My belovtd put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him. Ver, 5. I rose up to open to my be- Joved ; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet- smeliing myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. Ver. 6. I opened to my beloved ; but my beloved had with- drawn himself, and was gone : my soul failed when he spake : I sought him, but I could not find him ; I call- ed him, but he gave me no answer.
i Psal. cxxiii. 1 . Unto thee lift I yp mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens. * Ver. 2. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress ; so our eyes wait upon t}^e Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Psal. xlii. 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul .? and why art thou disquieted in n;e f hope thou in God : for I shall yet praise i^m for the help of his countenance.
Ver. 8. Yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. Psal. xliii. 3. O send out thy light and thy truth ; let them lead me, let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles, Ver. 4. Then will I go unto the al- tar of God, unto God my exceeding joy : yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God. Ver. 5. Why art thou cast down, O my soul ? and why art thou disquieted within me ? hope in God : for I^ shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God,
k 2 Chron. xxx. 18. For a multi- tude of the people, even many of Eph- raim and Manasseh, Issachar and Ze» bulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written : but Hezekiah prayed for them, saying. The good Lord pardon every one Ver. 19, That prepareth his heart to seek God, the Lord God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary. Isa. i. 16. Wash ye, make you clean ; put away the evil of your doings irom before mine eyes ; cease to da evil. Ver. 18. Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow ; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
1 2 Cor, vii. 11. For, behold, this
self-same thing that ye sorrowed
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Q. 17G. IMierein do the saa^aments of baptism and the Lord's supper agree ?
A. The sacraments of baptism and the Lord's supper agree, in that the author of both is God'"; the spiritual part of both is Christ and his benefits " ; both are seals of the same covenant **, are tobe dispensedby ministers of thegospeljandbynoneotherP;
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after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clear- ing of yourselves, yea, what indig- nation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge ! in all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter. I Chron. xv. 12, And (David) said unto them. Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Le- vites : sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it. Ver. 13. For be- cause ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order. Ver. 14. So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.
176. '"Mat. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. 1 Cor. xL '23. For I have received of the Lord that which also 1 delivered unto you. That the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread.
" Rom. vi. 3. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death ? Ver. 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death ; that like as Christ was raised vj) from the dead by the glory of
the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. 1 Cor.