MISCELLANY, NO. IV.

Remember thy Creator in the Days of thy Youth.

CHILDREN, your great Creator fear;
To Him your homage pay,

While vain employments fire your blood,
And lead your thoughts astray.

The due remembrance of His name
Your first regard requires:

Till your breast glows with sacred love,
Indulge no meaner fires.

Secure his favor, and be wise,

Before those cheerless days,

When age comes on, when mirth's no more,
And health and strength decays.

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A Choice Saqing.

Praying will make thee leave sinning;

Or, sinning will make thee leave praying.

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Work of the Spirit.-Eaith.

LESSON XXVIII.

MONDAY.-John i. 12.-But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

TUESDAY.-John i. 13.-Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

WEDNESDAY.-Rom. viii. 2.-For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. THURSDAY.-Rom. i, 17.-For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

FRIDAY.—Phil. ii. 13.-For it is God which worketh in you, both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

SATURDAY.-Heb. xii. 2.-Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

SABBATH.-Gal. v. 22.-But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith.

SECOND SERIES.

(Col. ii. 12. Acts xv. 8. Rom. viii. 4. Acts xv. 9. 2 Thess. i. 11. 1 Cor. xii. 9. 2 Cor. iv. 13.

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Union of Beliebers to Christ.

LESSON XXIX.

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MONDAY.-Rom. viii. 1.—There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

TUESDAY.-Rom. viii. 14.-For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

WEDNESDAY.-Rom. viii. 16.—The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.

THURSDAY.-Rom. viii. 23.-And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

FRIDAY.-Rom. viii. 35.-Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

SATURDAY.-John xi. 25.-Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live :

SABBATH.-John xi. 26.-And whosoever liveth and believeth in me

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Indwelling of the Spirit.

LESSON XXX.

MONDAY.-Rom. viii. 10.-And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. TUESDAY.-Rom. viii. 11.-But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

WEDNESDAY.-Rom. viii. 26.-Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

THURSDAY.-Rom. viii. 27.-And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

FRIDAY.-1 Cor. vi. 19.-What! know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

SATURDAY.-1 Thess. iv. 8.-He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit. SABBATH.-Acts ix. 31.-Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified: and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

Acts vi. 5. Luke iv. 1. Ps. li. 11. Gal. iii. 14. 2 Tim. i. 14. Eph. i. 13. Rom. viii. 15.

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LESSON XXXI.

MONDAY.-Rom. viii. 5.-For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

TUESDAY.-1 Cor. ii. 12.-Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.

WEDNESDAY.-2 Cor. xi. 4.-For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.

THURSDAY.Jude, ver. 19.-These be they who separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.

FRIDAY. Eph. ii. 2.-Wherein in time past ye walked after the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. SATURDAY.-1 John iv. 1.-Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

SABBATH.-1 John iv. 5.-They are of the world; therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

1 Cor. ii. 14. James iv. 5. Gal. iv. 29. 1 John iv. 3. Micah ii. 11. Ps. lxxviii. 8. Rom. viii. 9.

GOLDEN HILL. S. M.

COWPER.

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My former hopes are fled,
My terror now begins;

My guilty soul, alas, is dead
In trespasses and sins.