no sooner did the sound of your salutation strike mine ear, than the babe leap'd within me for joy.

but Mary considered these things very attentively, and weigh'd every circumstance in her mind, while the shepherds return'd,

for mine eyes have beheld the saviour,

and the child grew in stature and in all the improvements of the mind; he was stor'd with wisdom, and was the object of divine favour.

As the people were in suspence, every man imagining in his own mind that John might be the Messiah;

for a friend of mine, a traveller, is come to my house, and I have nothing to entertain him with.

but wo unto you Pharisees: for you will pay the tythes of mint, and rue, and all sorts of herbs, but as for justice and true piety, those you neglect. these you ought to have practised, without omitting however the other.

but they were all of a mind in making some excuse: the first said to him, I have bought a piece of ground, which I must needs go and see: therefore pray excuse me.

for this son of mine was dead, and is come to life: he was lost, and is found again. and then they began their feast.

but Abraham replied, they have Moses and the prophets, let them mind them.

as for those enemies of mine, who would not have me for their king, bring them here, and slay them in my presence.

fix it therefore in your mind, not to think beforehand about your defence.