light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

Prov. vi. 23. The commandment is a lamp, and the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life.

Loving the Word.

Ps. cxix. 165. Great peace have they which love thy law and nothing shall offend them.

Ps. cxii. 1. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.

1 Pet. ii. 2. As new-born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

Trembling at the Word.

Prov. xiii. 13. He that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.

Isa. lxvi. 2. To this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

xi. To Meditation.

Deut. xi. 18. Ye shall lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes; Ver. 21. That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto

your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Josh. i. 8. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Ps. cxix. 9. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto, according to thy word.

Ps. xxxvii. 31. The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.

Ps. i. 2. His delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. Ver. 3. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

Ps. lxiii. 5. My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips : Ver. 6. When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

Ps. ciii. 17 The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children; 18. To such as keep

his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.

Prov. iv. 26. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established (or, all thy ways shall be ordered aright.) Prov. xiv. 22. Mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good.

Isa. Ixiv. 5. Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness; those that remember thee in thy ways.

xii. To Fasting.

Joel ii. 15. Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. 16. Gather the people; sanctify the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, and those that suck the breasts; let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 17. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar; and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, &c. 18. Then will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity his people.

Fasting in Secret.

Matt. vi. 17. Thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face: 18 That thou appear not unto men to fast. but unto thy Father which is in secret

and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

xiii. To Baptism.

Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth, and is baptized, shall be saved.

Acts ii. 38. Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Acts xxii. 16. Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

Rom. vi. 3. Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 4. Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death; that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

1 Cor. xii. 13. By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free.

Gal. ii. 27. For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ.

Col. ii. 12. Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ve are risen with him, through

the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead.

1 Pet. iii. 20. Wherein (i. e. the ark) few (that is, eight souls) were saved by water. 21. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience towards God) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

xiv. To the Lord's Supper.

Matt. xxvi. 26. Jesus took bread and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. 27. And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it. 28. For this is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many, for the remission of sin.

1 Cor. x. 16. The cup of blessing, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

1 Cor. xii. 13. We have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

John vi. 54. Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood,* hath eternal life,

Though this be a figurative expression of faith in Christ's death, yet it is applicable to the particular exercise of it at the Lord's Table.