LECTURE XVII.

1 COR. ii. 12.—­We have received not the Spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God.

LECTURE XVIII.

Gen. xxvii. 38.—­And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my father?  Bless me, even me also, O my father.

Matt. xv. 27.—­And she said, Truth, Lord:  yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table.

LECTURE XIX.

Matt. xxii. 32.—­God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

LECTURE XX.

EZEK. xiii. 22.—­With lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life.

LECTURE XXI.

Advent Sunday.

HEB. iii. 16.—­For some when they had heard did provoke; howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

LECTURE XXII.

Christmas day.

John i. 10.—­He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

LECTURE XXIII.

Sunday next before Easter.

Matt. xxvi. 40, 41.—­What, could ye not watch with me one hour?  Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation; the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

LECTURE XXIV.

Good Friday.

Romans v. 8.—­God commendeth his love towards us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

LECTURE XXV.

Easter day.

John xx. 20.—­Then the disciples went away again unto their own home.

LECTURE XXVI.

WHITSUNDAY.

Acts xix. 2.—­Have you received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?

LECTURE XXVII.

Trinity Sunday.

John iii. 9.—­How can these things be?

LECTURE XXVIII.

EXOD. iii. 6.—­And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

Luke xxiii. 30.—­Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

LECTURE XXIX.

Psalm cxxxvii. 4.—–­ How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?