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.

Is. 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. Ve shall lay up these 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 swear unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

Josh. i. 8. The 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 shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good

success.

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

Ps. xxxvii. 31. The law of 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.

Ps. Ixiii. 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.

XII. To Fasting

Joel, ii. 15. Blow the trumpet in Sion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. Ver. 16. Gather the people; sanctify the congre gation; assemble the elders; gather the children, and those that suck the breast; let the bridegroom go forth out of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Ver. 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. Ver. 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. Ver. 18. That thou appear not to 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 upon the name of the Lord.

Rom. vi. 3. Know ye not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ, were baptized into his death? Ver. 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 we are all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or gentiles, whether we be bond or free.

Gal. iii. 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 you 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. Ver. 21. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth now also 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,

John, vi. 54. Whoso* eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. Ver. 55. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. Ver. 56. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. Ver. 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.

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

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

XV. To Good 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 an. swer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season, how good is it.

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

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 open before him, for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. Ver. 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.

The government of the tongue.-Prov. xiii. 3. He that keepeth his mouth, keepeth his life.