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walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty, through God, to the pulling down of strong-holds,casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God.

(x) Be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

() No man that warreth, entangleth himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier. Thou therefore endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

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(*) God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.

(a) In the last days men shall be lovers of their own selves; lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; and shall seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ. These are the servants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

(b) He that liveth in pleasure is dead while he liveth.

(c) A rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.

(d) To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.

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(e) Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for Christ's sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?

(f) There is no man that hath left house, or parents, or brethren, or wife, or children, for the kingdom of God's sake, who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

EDIFICATION.

In general.

(g) Build up yourselves on your most holy faith.

(b) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.

(i) Wherefore do ye spend your labour for that which satisfieth not? Ye are careful and troubled about many things, but one thing is needful; therefore take care of that good part which shall not be taken away from you.

(4) Labour not for the meat which perisheth: but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life.

(2) Be not righteous over-much; neither make thyself over-wise; why shouldest thou destroy thyself.

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(m) Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

(g) Jude 20. (b) Heb. 3. 12. (i) Isa 55.2. Luke 10. 41,

(e) Mark 8. 35.

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(4) John 6. 27.

Luke 9.25.
Eccles. 7. 16. (m) Eccles. 7. 3.

(f) Luke 18. 29, 30.

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By Knowledge.

(n) As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.

(0) Be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is; that ye may be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you.

(p) Take fast hold of instruction; attend to the words of wisdom: keep them in the midst of thine heart: Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path...

(9) Apply thine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and the reason of things; and to know the wiekedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness. So shalt thou behave thyself wisely in all thy ways.

(r) Inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

(s) Acquaint now thyself with the Almighty. Then shalt thou have thy delight in him; and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

(t) The works of the Lord are great, found out of all them that have pleasure therein.

(u) Be wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. Be ye wise as serpents, and

harmless as doves.

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(w) Give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. If any man have ears to hear, let

him hear.

(x) Take heed what ye hear. Unto you that hear shall more be given: For he that hath, to him shall be given; and him that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.

(y) Believe not every spirit; but try the spirits, whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

(x) Prove all things; choose the way of truth; hold fast that which is good.

(a) Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrine; for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace.

(b) Be not soon shaken in mind or troubled, neither by spirit nor by word, as that the day of Christ is at hand. It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.

(c) Do not exercise thyself in great matters, en things too high for thee.

(d) That the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; for wisdom is profitable to direct. (e) The simple believeth every word; but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

(f) When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee.

(w) 1 Tim. 4. 13.

Makr 4.23.

(x) Mark 4. 24, 25. Psal. 119 30. I Thess.

(6) 2 Thess. 2. 2.

fy) 1 John 4. 1. () 1 Thess. 5 21.

5. 21.

(a) Heb. 13.9.

(c) Psal. 131. I. a Prov. 19. 2. Eccles. 10. 10. (f) Prov. 2. 10, 11.

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Acts 1. 7. (e) Prov.

(g) If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself.

(b) Wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

(i) The way of life is above to the wise; that he may depart from hell beneath.

(4) Thy word, O Lord, is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path; the entrance of thy words giveth light.

(1) Fools make a mock at sin; but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.

(m) The foolishness of man perverteth his way, and his heart fretteth against the Lord.

(2) He that refuseth instruction, despiseth his own soul; but he is in the way of life that keepeth instruction.

(0) He that believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God, is condemned already. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil.

(p) Wo unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put. darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet

for bitter.

(q) Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth. For whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

(r) The children of this world are in their ge

(g) Prov. 9. 12. (b) Eccles. 7. 12. (i) Prov. 15. 14 (4) Psal. 119. 105, 130. (1) Prov. 14. 9. Prov. 15. 21. (m) Prov. 19.3. (n) Prov. 15.32. Prov. 10. 17. (9) Rom. 14. 22, 25. N 5

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(p) Isa. 5. 20.

(0) John 3. 18, (r) Luke 16. 8.

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