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that loveth and maketh a lie (Apoc. xxii. 14).

CHAPTER VIII.

THE CHRISTIAN'S RULE OF LIFE.

Q. What rule of life must we follow, if we hope to be saved?

A. We must follow the rule of life taught by Jesus Christ.

Q. What are we

Jesus saith to him: I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by Me (S. John xiv. 6).

I am the door. By Me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures (S. John x. 9).

That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world (S. Fohn i. 9).

I have hated and abhorred inibound to do by this quity; but I have loved thy law rule? (Ps. cxviii. 163).

A. We are bound always to hate sin and to love God.

Q. How must we hate sin?

A. Above all other evils; so as to be resolved never to commit a wilful sin for the love or fear of any thing what

soever.

Thou hast loved justice, and hated iniquity: therefore God, thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows (Ps. xliv. 8).

Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good (Rom. xii. 9).

Flee from sins as from the face of a serpent: for if thou comest near them, they will take hold of thee. The teeth thereof are the teeth of a lion, killing the souls of men. All iniquity is like a two-edged sword, there is no remedy for the wound thereof (Ecclus. xxi. 2).

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor Angels, nor principali

Q. How must we love God?

A. Above all things, and with our whole heart.

Q. How must we learn to love God?

A. We must beg of God to teach us. “O my God, teach me to love Thee!"

Q. What else must we do?

A. We must often think how good God is; often speak to Him in our hearts; and always seek to please Him.

Q. And does not Jésus Christ teach us also to love one another?

A. Yes; He commands

ties, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor might, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord (Rom. viii. 38).

And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell. And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee; for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell (S. Matt. v. 29).

And Jesus answered him: The first commandment of all is, Hear, O Israel the Lord thy God is one God. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment. And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these. And the scribe said to Him: Well, Master, Thou hast said in truth, that there is one God, and there is no other besides Him. And that He should be loved with the whole heart, and with the whole understanding, and with the whole soul, and with the whole strength: and to love one's neighbour as oneself, is a greater thing than all holocausts and sacrifices (S. Mark xii. 29).

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may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh His sun to rise upon the good and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust (S. Matt. v. 44).

For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself (Gal. v. 14).

For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? Do not even the publicans this? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this? (S. Matt. v. 46.)

Enter ye in at the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat. How narrow is the gate, and strait is the way that leadeth to life: and few there are that find it! (S. Matt. vii. 13.)

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die. But if by the spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God (Rom. viii. 12).

For the flesh lusteth against the spirit: and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to another: so that you do not the things that you would (Gal. v. 17).

corrected by self-denial, they will certainly carry us to hell.

Q. How are we to take up our cross?

A. By submitting with patience to the labours and sufferings of this short life, and embracing them willingly for the love of God.

Q. How are we to follow Christ?

A. By walking in His footsteps and imitating His virtues.

Q. What are the principal virtues we are to learn of Him?

A. Meekness, Humility, and Obedience.

Q. Which are the enemies the Christian must fight against all the days of his life?

A. The devil, the world, and the flesh.

And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after Me, cannot be My disciple (S. Luke xiv. 27).

The disciple is not above his Master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his Master (S. Luke vi. 40).

Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me, as I also am of Christ (1 Cor. iv. 16).

Come to Me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up My yoke upon you, and learn of Me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls. For My yoke is sweet and My burden light (S. Matt. xi. 28).

In your patience you shall possess your souls (S. Luke xxi. 19).

But I say to you not to resist evil but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also (S. Matt. v. 39).

Holocausts for sin did not please Thee. Then said I: Behold I come : in the head of the book it is written of me that I should do Thy will, O God (Heb. x. 6).

Put you on the armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the deceits of the devil (Eph. vi. 11).

Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man

Q. What do you mean by the devil?

A. Satan and all his wicked angels, who are ever seeking to draw us into sin, that we may be damned with them.

Q. What do you mean by the world?

A. All wicked company, and all such as love the vanities, riches, and pleasures of this world better than God.

Q. Why do you number these amongst the enemies of the soul?

A. Because they are always seeking, by word or example, to carry us along with them in the broad road that leads to damnation.

love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him (1 S. John ii. 15).

Be sober and watch: because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, goeth about seeking whom he may devour. Whom resist ye, strong in faith (1 Pet. v. 8).

And the seventy-two returned with joy, saying: Lord, the devils also are subject to us in Thy name. And He said to them: I saw Satan like lightning falling from heaven (S. Luke X. 17).

And lest the greatness of the revelations should lift me up, there was given me a sting of my flesh, an angel of Satan to buffet me (2 Cor. xii. 7).

And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an Angel of light (2 Cor. xi. 14).

If the world hate you, know ye that it hated Me before you. If you had been of the world: the world would love its own: but because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you (S. John xv. 18).

Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world, is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God (S. Fames iv. 4).

But wo to you that are rich: for you have your consolation. Wo to you that are filled: for you shall hunger. Wo to you that now laugh : for you shall mourn and weep (S. Luke vi. 24).

They have slept their sleep: and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands (Ps. lxxv. 6).

Enter ye in at the narrow gate :

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