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* JER. i. 17: Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee: be not dismayed at their faces, lest I confound thee before them. do. xx. 9: Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.

1 COR. iii. 8, 14: Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour. If any man's work abide which he hath built thereupon, he shall receive a reward.

Z GAL. ii. 7: The Gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the Gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter. PHI. i. 17: I am set for the defence of the Gospel. See on 1 Cor. iv. 1.

a1 COR. x. 33: 2 Cor. iv. 5: For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. do. xi. 7: Have 1 committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the Gospel of God freely?

1 COR. vii. 31: And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

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ROM. ii. 12, 14: As many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves.

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m GAL. ii. 2: But privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. do. iv. 11: I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain. do. v. 7: Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? PHI. ii. 16: That I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. 1 THES. iii. 5: I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter hath tempted you, and our labour be in vain. HEB. xii. I: Let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

" MAT. x. 22: He that endureth to the end shall be saved.

25. And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an Pincorruptible.

26 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air :

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PHI. iii. 13, 14: Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 1 TIM. i. 18: War a good warfare. 2 TIM. iv. 7: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

• EPH. vi. 12: We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 1 TIM. vi. 12: Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life. 2 TIM. ii. 5: If a man also strive for masteries, yet is he not crowned, except he strive lawfully. do. iv. 7: The words under ver. 24.

P2 TIM. iv. 8: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness. JAMES, i. 12: When he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him. 1 PET. i. 4: To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you. do. v. 4: When the chief Shepherd shall appear, ye shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away. REV. ii. 10: Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. do. iii. 11: Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

92 TIM. ii. 5: The words under ver. 25.

ROM. viii. 13: If ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. COL. iii. 5: Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

ROM. vi. 18, 19: Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. As ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness,

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1 The sacraments of the Jews 6 are types of our's, 7 and their punishments 11 examples for us: 14 we must flee from idolatry: 21 we must not make the Lord's table the table of devils: 24 and in things indifferent we must have regard of our brethren.

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JER. vi. 30: Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them. 2 Cor. xiii. 5, 6: Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

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a EXOD. xiii. 21: And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night. do. xl. 34: A cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle. NUMB. ix. 18: As long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents. do. xiv. 14: And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land for they have heard that thou LORD art among this people, that thou LORD art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night. DEUT. i. 33: Who went in the way before you-in fire by night-and in a cloud by day. NEH. ix. 12, 19: Thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar. The pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day. Ps. lxxviii, 14: In the daytime also he led them with a cloud. do. cv. 39: He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.

EXOD. xiv. 22: The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. NUMB. xxxiii. 8: And they departed from before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. Jos. iv. 23: The LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed

2 And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

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d ExOD. xvii. 6: Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel. NUMB. xx. 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also. Ps. lxxviii. 15: He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

DEUT. ix. 21: I cast the dust thereof [of the molten calf] into the brook that descended out of the mount. Ps. cv. 41: He opened the rock, and the waters gushed out; they ran in the dry places like a river..

'NUMB. XIV. 23, 29, 32, 35, 37: Surely they shall not see the