REWARD IN OBSERVING WHAT THEY TEACH.

Psalm xix. 11; cxii. 1; cxix. 165. Prov. iii. 1,2; xiii. 13; xxix. 18. Luke xi. 28. John xiii. 17. Rev. i. 3.

Great is their peace who love thy law;

How firm their souls abide !

Nor can a bold temptation draw
Their steady feet aside.

Then shall my heart have inward joy,
And keep my face from shame,
When all thy statutes I obey,

And honour all thy name.

THEIR SAVING AND

SANCTIFYING

Watts.

EFFICACY.

Psalm xix. 7; cxix. 9. John xvii. 17. Acts xiii. 26; xx. 32. Rom. i. 16. 1 Cor. xv. 2. Ephes. i. 13. 1 Thess. ii. 13. James i. 21. 1 Peter i. 23.

Thy word, Almighty Lord,
Where'er it enters in,

Is sharper than a two-edg'd sword
To slay the man of sin.

Thy word is power and life;

It bids confusion cease,

And changes envy, hatred, strife,

To love, and joy, and peace.

J. Montgomery.

ETERNAL LIFE TO BE FOUND

John v. 39. 2 Tim. iii. 15.

THEREIN.

Say, wouldst thou live? This hallowed page shall tell
Where life's best joys and holiest pleasures dwell;
Say, must thou die? Then prize this sacred lore
That points to worlds where death will reign no more.
Living or dying, this shall soothe all pain,

Teaching, "To live is Christ, to die is gain."

Anon.

DIVINE TEACHING

UNDERSTAND

NECESSARY TO

THEM.

Psalm cxix. 18. Luke xxiv. 45. Acts xvi. 14. 1 Cor. ii. 13.

This book itself is sealed to all but those
Who, taught of God, its heavenly pages scan;
The Spirit only doth its truths disclose,

And show the humbled soul the great Redeemer's plan.

T. Walker.

DANGER OF NOT

2 Chron. xxxvi. 16. xxviii. 9. Isaiah v. 24. John xii. 48. 2 Cor. ii.

BELIEVING

THEM.

Neh. ix. 26, 27, 30. Prov. xiii. 13; Jer. vi. 10,11; vii. 13, 14; viii. 9. 16.

Within this awful volume lies

The mystery of mysteries;

Happiest they of human race

To whom their God has given the grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray ;
To lift the latch, to force the way :
And better had they ne'er been born,
Than read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Sir Walter Scott.

NOT TO BE ADDED TO, OR DIMINISHED FROM.

Deut. iv. 2; xii. 32. Prov. xxx. 6. Rev. xxii. 18, 19.

Whoe'er to these shall add alloy,
Or take one sacred fragment thence,
Them and their works will God destroy,
His arm shall be his truth's defence.

J. Montgomery.

THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD.

THERE IS BUT ONE GOD.

Exod. xx. 3. Deut. iv. 35, 39; v. 7; vi. 4; xxxii. 39. Isaiah xxxvii. 16; xliii. 10; xliv. 6, 8; xlv. 5. John xvii. 3, 22. 1 Cor. viii. 4, 6. Ephes. iv. 6. 1 Tim. ii. 5.

Though reason gives not finite man
Divine infinitude to scan,

Yet man may his Creator own,
May bow before a Saviour's throne;
The Comforter with awe receive;

Their true divinity believe;

And while he chants the Father's love,
Who sends the Spirit from above
To win dominion for the Son,

With joy confess that God is One.

Barton.

GOD IS A SPIRIT, AND INVISIBLE.

Exod. xxxiii. 20.

i. 15. 1 Tim. i. 17;

John i. 18; iv. 24; v. 37; vi. 46. Ca. vi. 16. Heb. xi. 27. 1 John iv. 12

Thou neither canst be felt nor seen;

Thou art a Spirit pure;

Thou from eternity hast been,
And always shalt endure.

C. Wesley

OMNIPOTENT.

Gen. xvii. 1; xviii. 14.

Deut. iii. 24; xxxii. 39. 1 Sam.

xiv. 6. Job xlii. 2. Psalm lxxxix. 13. Jer. x. 12; xxxii. 17. Dan. iii. 17. Mark x. 27. Rom. i. 20.

Thy arm of might, most mighty King,
Both rocks and hearts doth break ;
My God, thou canst do every thing,
But what should show thee weak!

Ephes. iii.

Anon.

OMNISCIENT.

1 Sam. xvi. 7. 1 Kings viii. 39. 1 Chron. xxviii. 9. Job xxvi. 6; xxviii. 10; xxxiv. 21; xlii. 2. Psalm xliv. 21 ; xc. 8; xciv. 9, 11; cxxxix. 1-12. Prov. v. 21; xv. 3, 11. Jer. xvi. 17; xvii. 10; xxxii. 19. Ezek. xi. 5. Matt. vi. 4, 8; x. 29. Luke xvi. 15. Acts xv. 8, 18. Heb. iv. 13. Rev. ii. 23.

None ever yet impeded what He wrought,
None bars Him out from his most secret thought;
Darkness itself before his eye is light,

And hell's close mischief naked in his sight.

Cowper.

OMNIPRESENT.

Cen. xvi. 13. 1 Kings viii. 27. Job xxviii. 10, 11; xxxiv. 21 22. Psalm cxxxix. 7, 12. Prov. xv. 11. Isaiah lxvi. 1. Je zxiii. 24. Dan. ii. 22. Amos ix. 2, 3. Acts xvii. 24, 27.

Should fate command me to the farthest verge
Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes,
Rvers unknown to song; where first the sun