from the power of Satan unto God; that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

1 COR. 1:21. It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

3:5. Who is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the LORD gave to every man?

PHIL. 1: 25. I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith.

1 THESS. 3: 2. We sent Timotheus, our brother and minister of God and fellow-laborer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and comfort you concerning your faith.

LUKE 8: 12. The devil taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

JOHN 8: 45. Because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.

2 Cor. 4: 3. If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world has blinded the mind of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine into

them.

1 TIM. 6: 10. The love of money is the root of all evil, which, while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sor

rows.

§ 5. EVIDENCE OF FAITH.

JOHN 14:11. Believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also ; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

12:42. Nevertheless, among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

Jesus cried, and said, He that believeth on me, believeth not on me, but on him that sent me ; and he that seeth me, seeth him that sent me. I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on should not abide in darkness. And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.

me

LUKE 17: 18. There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger. And he said unto him, Arise, go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole.

MARK 16: 16. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.... And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues: they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

2 Cor. 13:5. Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves.

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2 TIM. 4: 7. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them that love his appearing.

Ps. 116: 10. I believed, therefore have I spoken.

ACTS 15: 8. God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us; and put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

1 COR. 13: 2. Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

1 JOHN 5: 10. He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself.

1 PETER 2: 7. Unto you which believe, he (Christ) is precious.

[See "Evidences of Piety."]

§ 6. OBJECTS OF FAITH.

JOHN 14: 1. Ye believe in God, believe also in me.

11: 27. I believe that thou art Christ the Son of God, that should come into the world.

16: 30. We believe ... that thou camest forth from God.

Acts 8: 37. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.

GAL. 2: 20. The life, that I now live in the flesh, I live by faith of the Son of God.

EPH. 3 17. I pray that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.

ČOL. 1: 23. Continue in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel.

2: 6. As ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him, rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, as ye have been taught.

2 TIM. 1 13. Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard, in faith and love, which is in Christ Jesus.

ACTS 20: 21. Paul testified, both to the Jews and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 THES. 2: 13. God hath from the beginning chosen you unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.

JOHN 3: 23. This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

1 JOHN 6: 29. This is God's commandment, that we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another..

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ROM. 6 8. If we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him.

109. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

1 THES. 4: 14. If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

HEB. 11: 6. He that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is the rewarder of them that diligently seek him.

things which are seen and are temporal; but at the things which are not seen and are eternal.

1 TIM. 6: 12. Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold on eternal life.

§ 7. FRUITS OF FAITH.

HEB. 6: 12. Be ye followers of them who, through faith and patience, inherit the promises.

2 PETER 1:5. Add to your faith, virtue, and to virtue knowledge, and to knowledge temperance, and to temperance patience, and to patience godliness, and to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness charity; for if these things be in you and abound, they make you, that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

JUDE 20. Ye beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life.

REV. 13: 10. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.

14: 12. Here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

ACTS 13: 39. By him all that believe are justified from all things, from which they could not be justified by the law of Moses.

ROM. 3:25. Him (Christ Jesus) hath God set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness, for the remission of sins... to declare his righteousness, that he might be just, and yet the justifier of them that believe in Jesus.

45. He that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted to him for righteousness.

5: 1. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

10 4. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.

done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

GAL. 3: 22. The Scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. -24. The law was our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

lieveth on him is not condemned ; but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God... He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life, and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.

CHAPTER III.

CONFESSION OF CHRIST.

er to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.

GAL. 3:26. Ye are all the children of God, by faith in Jesus Christ. JOHN 16: 27. The Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

T ACTS 10: 42. He commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the judge of quick and dead. To him gave all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth on him, shall receive remission of sins.

ROM. 15: 13. The God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing.

1 PETER 1 8. In whom believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory.

27. To them that believe he is precious.

ROM. 9: 33. Behold I lay in Sion a stumbling-stone and Rock of offence, and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed. (Isa. 28: 16.) JOHN 3:14. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man he lifted up; that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life... For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved. He that be

But

MAT. 10: 32. Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I also confess before my Father which is in heaven. whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. (Luke 12 : 8.)

JOHN 12: 42. Nevertheless, among the chief rulers also many believed on him; but because of the Pharises they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue. For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God.

ROм. 109. If thou shalt confess with thy mouth, the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

HEB. 10 23. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering.

PHIL. 2: 11. Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

1 TIM. 6 12. Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, having witnessed good profession, before many witnesses.

HEB. 3 1. Consider the Apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.

4 14. Seeing then we have a great high-priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.

ing.

1 JOHN 4 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him and he in God.

MARK 8 38. Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (L. 9: 26.)

2 TIM. 2: 12. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

1 JOHN 2:23. Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.

CHAPTER IV.

THE CHURCH, OR CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION.

§1. CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS A DIS

TINCT COMMUNITY OR CHURCH.

ACTS 12 5. Prayer was made without ceasing of the CHURCH unto God, for him [Peter.]

14: 27. And when they were come and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

ACTS 15 3. And being brought on their way, by the church, they passed through Phenice.... when they were come to Jerusalem they were received of the church, and of the apostles and elders.

1 COR. 1: 1. Paul... unto the church 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, Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

REV. 1: 4. John, to the seven churches, which are in Asia.

21. Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus, &c.

ROM. 16 16. Salute one another

16 5. Greet Priscilla and Aquila ... likewise the church that is in their house.

COL. 4:15. Salute... Nymphas, and the church which is in his house, and when this epistle is read among you, cause that it be read in the church of the Laodiceans, and that ye likewise read the epistle from Laodicea.

PHIL. 1: 1. Paul and Timothy ... unto Philemon... and the church in thy house, grace to you, &c.

ACTS 8: 1. At that time there was great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem.

3 JOHN 9. I wrote unto the church. 2 COR. 6:14. Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you; and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.

§ 3. THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH. MAT. 16: 18. On this rock will I build MY CHURCH. ACTS 5: 11. all the church.

Great fear came on

1 COR. 12: 12. For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit,

GAL. 3: 26. For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have

been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

EPH. 4: 1. I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, with all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling: one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

5: 26. That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

T COL. 1: 18. He (Christ) is the head of the body, the church.

1 COR. 1: 10. Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in

12: 14. For the body is not one member but many.-26. And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honored, all the members rejoice with it. Now ye are the BODY of CHRIST, and members in particular.

1 PETER 5: 13. The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, greeteth you.

ACTS 20: 28. Feed the church of

God.

1 COR. 15: 9. I persecuted the church of God.

CHURCHES only spoken of as existing in different places.

ACTS 9 31. Then had the churches rest.

15: 41. He (Paul) went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.

16: 5. So were the churches established in the faith.

1 COR. 7: 17. So ordain I, in all the churches.

REV. 1: 4. To the seven churches which are in Asia.

ACTS 2: 44. And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

ment. For it hath been declared

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unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Chloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?

3: 1. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.... For whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal?-21. Therefore let no man glory in men n; for all things are yours....and ye ARE CHRISTS,' and Christ is God's.

I. Public Worship.

1. Appointed and Illustrated.

MARK 16: 15. Go ye into all the world, and PREACH THE GOSPEL to every creature.

1 COR. 1: 21. After that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God; it pleased God, by the foolishness of preaching, to save them that believe.

LUKE 9: 60. Let the dead bury their dead, but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

4: 44. He, (Christ) preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

ACTS 18: 14. Paul.... came to Antioch, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day and sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of