John v, 46, 47. For had ye be-1 Heved Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me. But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? John xv, 3. Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. John xx, 31. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. Acts xviii, 25. For he mightily convinced the Jews, and that publickly, shewing by the scriptures that Jesus was Christ. Rom. x, 17. So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 2 Cor. vii, 8. For though I made you sorry with a letter, I do not repent, though I did repent: for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though it were but for a season. 2 Cor. x, 9-11. That I may not seem as if I would terrify you by letters. For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful. Let such an one think this, that such as we are in word by letters when we are absent, such will we be also in deed when we are present. 2 Tim. ii, 15. Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Ps. xix, 11. Moreover by them is thy servant warned; and in keeping of them there is great reward. Ps. cxix, 9, 98-100, 104, 130. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word. Thou, through thy commandments, hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. ancients, because I keep thy preI understand more than the Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple. cepts. Prov. i, 2--4. To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Isa. xxvill, 10, 18. For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: but the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and shared, and taken. 2 Tim. iii, 15-17. And that from a child thou hast known the holy their understanding, that they Luke xxiv, 45. Then opened he scriptures, which are able to might understand the scriptures. make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ 2 Pet. iii, 16, 17. As also in all his Jesus. All Scripture is given by things; in which are some things epistles, speaking in them of these inspiration of God, and is profit-hard to be understood, which they able for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all god works. Heb. iv, 12. For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness. AND OF SPIRITUAL BLESS INGS. Ps. xix, 8. The statutes of the James i, 21. Wherefore, lay LORD are right, rejoicing the apart all filthiness, and super-heart: the commandment of the fluity of naughtiness, and receive LORD is pure, enlightening the with meekness the ingrafted word, which is able to save your Souls. THE SOURCE OF INSTRUC TION TO MAN. Ps. xvii, 4. Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the pathis of the destroyer. eyes. Ps. cxix. 14, 16, 24, 50. 81, 92, 93, 111, 143, 147, 162 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word. Thy testimonies also cre my deligh, and my counsellors. This is my comfort in my affliction: for thy word hath quickened me. My soul fainteth for thy salvation; but I hope in thy word. Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine afflic tion. I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: get thy commandments are my delights. I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil. Prov. xxii, 19, 21. That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee. That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer, the words of truth to them that send unto thee? Jer. xv, 16. And thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart, for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts. Acts xv, 30, 31. So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle: Which when they had read, they rejoiced for the consolation. Rom, xv, 4. For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning; that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. write we unto you, that your joy 1 John i, 4. And these things may be full. SCRIPTURE ABOVE TRADITIONS. Matt. xv, 1-3. Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying, Why tradition of the elders for they do thy disciples transgress the wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? Mark vil, 1-5, 7-9, 13 Then came together unto him the Phawhich came from Jerusalem. And risees, and certain of the scribes, when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled (that is to say, with unwashen) hands, they found fault. (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pois, brazen vessels, and of tables.) Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tra dition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands? Howbeit, in vain do they worship me, teach ing for doctrines the commandments of men. For, laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many phets also find no vision from the Ezek. vil, 26. Mischief shall Amos vill, 11-13. Behold, the other such like things ye do. And days come, saith the Lord GOD he said unto them, Full well ye land, not a famine of bread, nor a that I will send a famine in the reject the commandment of God, thirst for water, but of hearing that ye may keep your own tradi- the words of the Lord: And they tion. Making the word of God of none effect through your tradi- from the north even to the east shall wander from sea to sea, and tion, which ye have delivered: they shall run to and fro to see and many such like things do ye.the word of the LORD, and shal Gal. i, 14. And profited in the not find it. In that day shall the Jews' religion above many my fair virgins and young men faint equals in mine own nation, being for thirst. more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers 2 Thess. ii, 15. Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle. PRIVILEGE OF POSSESSING Deut. iv, 6, 8. Keep therefore, Rom. iii, 1, 2. What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? Much, every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. II. MODE OF RECORD. and do them; for this is your wis-them upon the posts of thy house, Isa. xxx, 8. Now go, write it before then in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever LORD God of Israel, saying, Write Jer. xxx, 2. Thus speaketh the thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a book. Take thee a roll of a book, and Jer. xxxvi, 2, 4, 17, 18 27--29, 32. write therein all the words that I Israel, and against Judali, and have spoken unto thee against against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the day. Then Jeremiah called Baruch days of Josiah, even unto this the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a Birnch, saying, Tell us now, How roll of a book. And they asked didst thou write all these words at his mouth? Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book. Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah (after that the king had burnt the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah,) saying, Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the former words that were in the first roll. Judah hath burnt, And thou shalt which Jehoiakim the king of say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the LORD, Thou hast Deut. xxvil, 2, 3, 8. And it shall thou written therein, saying. The burnt this roll, saying, Why hast be, on the day when ye shall pass king of Babylon shall certainly over Jordan unto the land which come and destroy this land, and Deut. xxx, 11-14. For this com-the LORD thy God giveth thee shall cause to cease from thence mandment, which I command that thou shalt set thee up great man and beast? Then took Jerethee this day, it is not hidden stones, and plaster them with miah another roll, and gave it to from thee, neither is it far off. It plaster: And thou shalt write Baruch the scribe, the son of Neis not in heaven, that thou should- upon them all the words of this rial; who wrote therein, from the est say, Who shall go up for us to law, when thou art passed over, inouth of Jeremiah, all the words heaven, and bring it unto us, that that thou mayest go in unto the of the book which Jehoiakim king we may hear it, and do it? Neither land which the LORD thy God of Judah had burnt in the fire: is it beyond the sea, that thou giveth thee, a land that floweth and there were added besides shouldest say, Who shall go over with milk and honey; as the LORD unto them many like words. the sea for us, and bring it unto God of thy fathers hath promised us, that we may hear it, and do it? thee. And thou shalt write upon Jer. xlv, 1. The word that JereBut the word is very nigh unto the stones all the words of this miah the prophet spake unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy law very plainly. Baruch the son of Neriah, when heart, that thou mayest do it. Deut. xxxi, 19, 22. Now there-book at the mouth of Jeremiah, he had written these words in a fore write ye this song for you in the fourth year of Jehoiakim and teach it the children of Israel: the son of Josian king of Judah, put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me saying. against the children of Israel. Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel. say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 2 Chr. xv, 3. Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law. Ps. cxlvii, 19, 20. He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto, Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments. they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD, of thine house. and upon thy Josh. viii, 32. And he wrote there, upon the stones, a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. Lam ii, 9. Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and Isa. viil, 16. Bind up the testiher princes are among the Gen-mony, seal the law among my tiles the law is no more; her pro-disciples. 651 Jer. 11, 60. So Jeremiah wrote in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon, even all these words that are written against Babylon. the evening and the morning Dan. viii, 26. And the vision of which was told is true: wherefore -hut thou up the vision: for it shall be for many days. shut up the words, and seal the Dun. an. 4,9. But tnou, O Daniel, book, even to the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Hab. ii, 2. And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. John xx, 30. And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. John xxi. 25. And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen. Gal. vi, 11. Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand. Eph. iii, 3. How that by,revelation he made known unto me the mystery; as I wrote afore in few words. Heb. xiil, 22. And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written a letter unto you in tew words. 1 Pet. v. 12. By Sylvanus, a faithful brother unto you, (as I suppose.) I have written briefly, exhorting and testifying that this is the true grace of God wherein ye stand. Rev. i, 11, 19. Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia. Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. Rev. v. 1-4, 7. And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven, nor iu earth neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. Rev x, 4. And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and write them not. Rev. xxii, 10. And he saith unto me Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book; for the Horeb, when the Load made a time is at hand ILLUSTRIOUS EXAMPLE. THE DECALOGUE. covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt. Neh. ix, 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments. Luke xviii, 20. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not com mit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. 2 Cor. ii, 3. Forasmuch as ve are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart. DECALOGUE WRITTEN BY GOD. Exod. xxiv, 12. And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them. Exod. xx, 1-17. And God spake all these words, saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bowdown thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the sabbathSix days day, to keep it holy. shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, unto Moses, when he had made Exod. xxxi, 18. And he gave thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughan end of communing with him ter, thy man servant, nor tny maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath-day, and hallowed it. Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. Deut. x, 5. And I turned myself, and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me. 1 Kings viii, 9. There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. 2 Chron. v, 10. There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at upon mount Sinai, two tables of And Exod. xxxii, 15, 16, 19. And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, and the two tables of the tes imony were in his hand: the tables were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written. the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the comp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. Exod. xxxiv, 4.29. And he hewed two tables of stone, like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as the LORD had commanded him, and took in his hand the two tables of stone. And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And He wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments. Deut. iv, 13. And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, eren ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. Deut. v, 22. These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice; and he added no more: and he wrote them in the two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me. Deut. ix, 10, 11, 17. And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone, written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spake with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly. And it came to pass, at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant. And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes. Deut. x, 1-4. At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittimwood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them unto me. III. THE BIBLE. IN EARLY TIMES. Deut. xvii, 18, 19. And it shali be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites: And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days of his life; that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them. Deut. xxxi, 9, 24-26. And Moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel. And it came to pass, when Moses had made au end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished, That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee. 2 Kings xxii, 8, 10. And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD: and Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it. And Shaphan the scribe shewed the king, saying, Hilkiah the priest hath delivered me a book: and Shaphan read it before the king. 2 Chron. xvil, 9. And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about through out all the cities of Judah, and taught the people. Isa. 1, 1. The vision of Tsalah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judan and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Aliaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Jer. 1, 1-3. The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth, in the land of Benjamin: To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign. It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month. Ezek. 1, 2, 3. In the fifth day of 2 Chron. xxxiv, 14-16. And the month, (which was the fifth when they brought the money that was brought into the house year of king Jehoiachin's captivof the LORD, Hilkiah the priest ity.) The word of the LORD came found a book of the law of the expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, LORD given by Moses. And Hil- the son of Buzi, in the land of the kiah answered and said to Sha-Chaldeans, by the river Chebar; phan the scribe, I have found the and the hand of the LORD was book of the law in the house of there upon him. the LORD. And Hilkiah delivered phan carried the book to the king, the book to Shaphan. And Shaand brought the king word back again, saying; All that was committed to thy servants, they do it. Neh. viii, 1, 2, 5. And all the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water-gate; and they spake unto Ezra the Scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the LORD had commanded to Israel. And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation, both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month. And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up. (See under PROPHET.) Eccles. 1, 1. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem. Dan. ix, 2. In the first year of books the number of the years, his reign, I Daniel understood by whereof the word of the LORD that he would accomplish seventy came to Jeremiah the prophet, years in the desolations of Jerusalem. Dan. xii, 9. And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. Hos. i, 1. The words of the LORD that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. Joel 1, 1. The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel. Amos 1, 1. The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake. Obadiah 1. The vision of Obadiab. Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom; We have heard a rumour from the LoRD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. Jonah 1, 1. Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittal, saying. Mic. i, 1. The word of the LORD that came to Micah the MorasCant. i, 1. The Song of songs, thite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, which is Solomon's. and Hezekiah kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem. Nah. i, 1. The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite. Hab. i, 1. The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. Zeph. i, 1 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah. Hag. i, 1. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying. Zech. i, 1. In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying. Mal. i, 1. The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi. SOME BOOKS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. Matt. i, 1. The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. Mark 1, 1. The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. the son of God. Luke 1, 3, 4. It seemed good to me als, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed. John xx, 31. But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name. Acts 1. 1. 2. The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and to teach, Until the day in which he was taken up, after that he through the Holy Ghost had given commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen. Rom. 1, 1. Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. 1 Cor. i, 1, 2. Paul, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, Unto the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours, Eph. 1, 1. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus. Phil. i, 1. Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons. Col. i, 1, 2. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, To the saints and faithful brethren in Christ which are at Colosse: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Thess. I, 1. Paul, and Silvanus and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Thess. i, 1. Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Poutus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. 2 Pet. 1, 1. Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained the righteousness of God and our like precious faith with us through Saviour Jesus Christ Jude 1. Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called. Rev. 1, 1, 2. The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave onto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his serVant John: Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. BOOKS QUOTED IN SCRIPTURE, BUT NOT IN THE CANON. Num. xxi, 14, 15. Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon, And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab. Josh, x, 13. And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until 1 Tim. 1, 1, 2. Paul, an apostle of the people had avenged themJesus Christ by the command-selves upon their enemies. Is not ment of God our Saviour, and this written in the book of Jasher? Lord Jesus Christ which is our So the sun stood still in the midst hope, Unto Timothy my own son of heaven, and hasted not to go in the faith. down about a whole day. 2 Tim. i, 1, 2. Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life which is in Christ Jesus, To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father, and Christ Jesus our Lord. Titus i, 1, 4. God, and an Paul, a servant of apostle of Jesus To Titus, mine Christ. own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour, Jesus Christ, and Timothy our Philemon, 1. Paul, a prisoner of brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow-labourer. Heb. xiii, 22. And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. 2 Sam. i, 18. Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher. the acts of Solomon, and all that 1 Kings xi, 41. And the rest of he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon? 1 Chron. xxix, 29, 30. Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of Samuel the seer, and in the book of Nathan the pro might, and the times that went phet, and in the book of Gad the seer, With all his reign and his over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries. the acts of Solomon, first and 2 Chron. ix, 29. Now the rest of last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Alijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam 1 Pet. 1 1. Peter, an apostle of the son of Nebat? James i, 1. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. |