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Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

Gal. v. 16,

If ye, live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

Rom. viii. 13.

The works of the flesh are these; adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness,

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goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. Against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. Gal. v. 19.

OF THE BODY AND THE SPIRIT.

KNOW ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost?

1 Cor. vi. 19.

If any man defile the Temple of God, him will God destroy: for the Temple of God is holy; which Temple

ye are.

1 Cor. iii. 17.

Therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are

God's.

1 Cor. vi. 20.

This is the will of God, even your sanctification that every one should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour.

1 Thess. iv. 3, 4.

OF THE EYE OF PROVIDENCE.

THE eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.

Prov. xv. 3.

There is nothing covered that shall not be revealed, nor hid that shall not be known.

Matt. x. 26.

Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is set to do evil.

Eccles. viii. 11.

But God shall bring every work into judgement, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

Eccles. xii. 14.

Fear not them that kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear Him which is able to destroy both soul and body in Hell.

Matt. x. 28.

OF LUXURY IN FOOD AND CLOTHING.

Take no thought, saying, "What "shall we eat?" or "What shall we drink?" or "Wherewithal shall we be clothed?" for after all these things do the Gentiles seek: for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have

need of all these things. But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matt. vi. 31, &c.

A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he

possesseth.

Luke xii. 15.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

Luke xiv. 4.

The kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.

Rom. xiv. 17.

He that in these things serveth Christ, is acceptable to God and

approved of men.

Rom. xiv. 18.

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