The One Hundred and Twenty-first Service.

SING HYMN: ANTHEM OR CHANT.

BIBLICAL READINGS:

Subject:-THE SIN AND DANGER OF UNBELIEF.

Minister.

Unbelief. All men have not faith.

Your fathers tempted Me, proved Me, and saw My work.

Thess.

iii. 2.

Ps.

XCV.

11.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do 9, 10, err in their heart, and they have not known My ways.

Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter in My rest.

So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

Heb.

iii. 19.

19.

But whereunto shall I liken this genera- Matt. tion? It is like unto children sitting in the xi. 16, markets, and calling unto their fellows, And 17, 18, saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.

For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, He hath a devil.

THE SIN AND DANGER OF UNBELIEF.

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The

The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friends of publicans and sinners.

And He marvelled because of their unbelief.

And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not causes of upright in him: but the just shall live by his

nnbelief.

The

faith.

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?

Mark vi. 6.

Matt. xiii.58.

Hab.

ii. 4.

John

v. 44.

And because I tell you the truth, ye believe viii.45.
Me not.

But ye believe not, because ye are not of
My sheep, as I said unto you.

x. 26.

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them 2 Cor. that are lost :

In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

iv. 3,4.

John

He that believeth on Him is not condemned: sin and but he that believeth not is condemned already, iii. 18, danger of because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

unbelief.

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

36.

I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die viii.24. in your sins for if ye believe not that I am. He, ye shall die in

your sins.

And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie

The

Icaution

against unbelief.

That they all might be damned who believeth not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

Be

Well; because of unbelief they were
broken off, and thou standest by faith.
not highminded, but fear.

Rom.

xi. 20.

Take heed, brethren, less there be in any Heb. of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing iii. 12. from the living God.

Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being iv. 1. left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Let us labour therefore to enter into that iv. 11. rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

And be not faithless, but believing.

Minister and Congregation.

INVOCATION.

John

xx. 27.

Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.-Mark ix. 24. THE LORD'S PRAYER.-Matt. vi. 9-13.-Our Father. SING HYMN :-ANTHEM OR CHANT.

Minister.

EXTEMPORANEOUS PRAYER.
DOXOLOGY.

Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever.-Heb. xiii.. 20, 21.

The One Hundred & Twenty-second Service.

The law of God.

Kindness

SING HYMN: ANTHEM OR CHANT.

BIBLICAL READINGS:

Subject: THE LAW OF KINDNESS.

Minister.

vii.

9, 10.

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Zech. Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions every man to his brother: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor: and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart.

Prov. iii. 3.

Lev.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge to neigh- against the children of thy people, but thou xix, 18. shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

bours.

v. 44.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, Matt. bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you. Bless them which persecute you bless, persecu- and curse not. Recompense to no man evil xii. 14, for evil. If it be possible, as much as lieth 17, 18. in you, live peaceably with all men.

The

ted.

Rom.

The

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for stranger. thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

The

enemy.

The

erring.

The burdened.

The .saints. .8.i

The

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath for it is written, Vengeance is mine: I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thy enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink; for in so doing hou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good

Heb.

xiii,

2, 3.

Rom.

xii.

19-21.

10.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, Gal.vi. ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in 1, 2, 6, the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Distributing to the necessity of saints; Rom. given to hospitality.

But to do good and to communicate forget
not for with such sacrifices God is well
pleased.

And let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works.
Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep

joyful and with them that weep.

the sad.

Let nothing be done through strife or vain glory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

xii. 13.

Heb.

xiii.16.

x. 24.

Rom.

xii. 15.

Phil.ii.

3. 4.