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and I will raise him up at the last day 55. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. 56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57. As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. Ver. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing the words that I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.

Cant. ii. 3. I sat under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. Ver. 4. He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Cant. v. 1. Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Isa. xxv. 6. And in this mountain shall the Lord of Hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.

xv. To Goud Discourse.

Prov. xii. 6. The mouth of the upright shall deliver them. Ver. 14. A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth, and the recompense of a man's hands shall be rendered unto him. Ver. 18. The tongue of the wise is health.

Prov. xiii. 2. A man shall eat good by the fruit of his mouth.

Prov. xv. 4. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life. Ver. 23. A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth; and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

Prov. xvi. 24. Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Prov. xviii. 20. A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Ver. 21. Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Mal. iii. 16. Then they that feared the Lord, spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it; and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon nis name. 17. And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of Hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

To the Government of the Tongue. Prov. xiii. 3. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life.

Prov. xiv. 3. The lips of the wise shall preserve them.

Prov.xxi. 23. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue, keepeth his soul from trouble.

Matt. xii. 37. By thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

1 Pet. iii. 10. He that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil; and his lips, that they speak no guile.

xvi. To Watchfulness.

Luke xii. 37. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when he cometh shall find watching: Verily, I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. Ver. 38. And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.

Rev. xvi. 15. Behold, I come as a thief: blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.

Prov. xxii. 5. Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward. He that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

Prov. xxviii. 14. Happy is the man that feareth alway; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

xvii. To them that keep Good
Company.

Prov. xiii. 20. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise; but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Prov. xxvii. 17. Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

Avoid Evil Company.

Ps. i. 1. Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Prov. ix. 6. Forsake the foolish and live; and go in the way of understanding. 2 Cor. vi. 17. Come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you.

xviii. To them that perform their
Oaths.

Ps. xv. 1. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? Ver.4. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Ps. xxiv. 4. He who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceit. fully; 5. He shall receive the blessing

from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

xix. To the Keeping of the Sabbath.

Exod. xx. 11. The Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Isa. lvi. 2. Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Ver. 6. The sons of the stranger that join themselves to the Lord to serve him, and to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants; every one that keepeth the Sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant. Ver. 7. Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called a house of prayer for all people.

Isa. lviii. 13. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable, and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words: Ver. 14. Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord.

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