therefore, whoever heareth these instructions of mine, and puts them in practice, I will compare him to the prudent man, who built his house upon a rock:

while he was speaking, a bright cloud surrounded them: and suddenly a voice broke out of the cloud, saying, "this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him."

if ye comprehend these things, happy are ye if ye put them in practice.

he that hath received my commandments, and keeps them, he it is that loves me: and he that loves me, shall be beloved by my father, and I will love him, and shew my self unto him.

your love to me will be in keeping my commandments: even as I love my father by keeping his commandments.

to those who are without the law, as without that law, (not as being under no law to God, but as under the law to Christ) that I might gain those who are without the law.

to level all the barriers they contrive for obstructing the divine doctrine, and to make their pride captive to the authority of Christ.

for you know the precepts we gave you in the name of the Lord Jesus.

in flaming fire, to take vengeance on those, who know not God, and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

and by a perfect obedience he procured eternal salvation for all that obey him;

And learn

my father has instructed me in every thing: and no one knoweth the son, except the father: nor does any one know the father, except the son, and he to whom the son is pleased to reveal him."

teaching them to observe every thing which I have enjoin'd you: and be assured I shall be always with you to the end of the world.

Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not observe what I say?

and country, whence numbers went to see the fact: being come to Jesus, they found the man, who had been dispossess'd of the demons, sitting at Jesus's feet, cloathed, and in his right senses: at which they were much surpriz'd,

now she had a sister, named Mary, who placed herself at the feet of Jesus, to attend to his discourse.

for I have given you example, that you might behave to one another, as I have to you.

for Moses said to the fathers, "a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, of your brethren, like unto me; observe whatever he shall say to you.

this is that Moses who said to the children of Israel, "a prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear."

but you have learned other things from Christ,

for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus:

he that says he is attach'd to Christ, ought to regulate his conduct by his example.

For

he shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.

saying, " tell ye the daughter of Sion, behold, thy king cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting on an ass, even a colt, the fole of an ass."

Now the time of his assumption drawing nigh, he was fix'd in his resolution to go to Jerusalem:

I who am a person of a mean presence, when among you, but exert myself upon your account, when absent; I Paul intreat you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, not to let me exert that authority,

by assuming the form of a servant: being made in the likeness of men,

this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,

And ye

Believe in me, all ye that labour under oppression, and I will give you relief.

Whereas 'tis we who have believed that shall enter into rest, as he said, "wherefore I have sworn in my wrath, that they shall not enter into my rest." which is different from that rest, at the beginning of the world, when the work of creation was finished.

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he shall not strive, nor cry, neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.

for they load men with intolerable impositions, and will not take the least pains to ease them of the burthen: they do nothing but out of ostentation,

for the same temper of mind ought to be in you as was in Christ Jesus: